Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Simi Valley, CAFull-time$60–75/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
An employer in Simi Valley is hiring a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to support a small unmanned aircraft product. The role supports design work after preliminary design reviews, including identifying tests and prototype parts. The engineer will use SolidWorks and may participate in thermal modeling. The position is onsite, full-time on a 9/80 schedule, and pays $60–$75 per hour depending on experience and qualifications.
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Job Description
An employer sitting in Simi Valley, CA is looking to hire multiple Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to support their small unmanned aircraft product. This person will be working onsite full-time on a 9/80 schedule. He/she will be reporting to the AeroMechanical Engineering Manager. This program has completed preliminary design reviews and are looking to bring on a Mechanical Engineer to support and take on different aspects of design, identify any testing that needs to be done, what prototype parts to do the tests on etc. This person will need to have familiarity with injection molding experinece, machined parts, and composite laminates. This ME will be using SolidWorks for design work and may be apart of thermal modelling. This role will be paying between $60-75/hour, depending on years of experience and qualifications.
Skills and Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience in Mechanical Design Engineering; with knowledge of injection molding, machined parts, and composite laminates
- Demonstrated understanding of metallic, plastic and composite material properties
- Mechanical Design experience on unmanned aircrafts/vehicles and/or related products
- Solidworks design experience Thermal modelling Composite layup design a plus (Kevlar and Carbon prepreg laminates)
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 748 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$60–75/hr
- US median$40–54/hr77 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $67.50/hr, is 48% above the US median midpoint ($46/hr) — in the top quarter of Mechanical Design Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 191 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs in California and 748 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Mechanical Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 630 postings).
- Education
- 474 of the 748 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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