Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

About the role

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of mechanical systems, structural hardware, and mechanisms from early concept through production readiness.
• Create innovative engineering solutions that meet customer requirements, performance objectives, and environmental constraints.
• Develop detailed 3D models, assemblies, engineering drawings, and manufacturing documentation.
• Perform engineering calculations, trade studies, tolerance analyses, and evaluations to support design decisions.
• Support multiple development programs simultaneously while maintaining quality, schedule, and technical objectives.
• Review and validate engineering analyses, calculations, and design outputs to ensure technical accuracy and compliance.
• Generate complete design packages including bills of materials, assembly drawings, and release documentation.
• Support rapid concept development efforts, proposal activities, and customer-driven engineering studies.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, systems, and test engineering teams to transition designs into production and qualification.
• Provide technical support for prototype builds, hardware integration activities, development testing, and qualification efforts.
• Serve as a technical mentor to junior engineers and contribute to the growth of engineering best practices.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to solve complex technical challenges in high-performance aerospace and defense applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of experience designing aerospace, defense, or other highly engineered products and systems.
• Demonstrated success developing hardware that has progressed through testing, qualification, and implementation.
• Strong mechanical design background with expertise in engineering drawing standards and design best practices.
• Proficiency with SolidWorks and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience utilizing CAD and CAE tools to support product development and engineering analyses.
• Strong understanding of mechanics, material behavior, stress analysis, and engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, requirements, and engineering documentation.
• Experience creating and managing bills of materials, detailed drawings, and product definition packages.
• Working knowledge of military, aerospace, or commercial engineering specifications and standards.

Pay

Salary Range: $135,000 - $165,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

Location

Onsite in Mukilteo, WA

Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.