Manufacturing Engineer
General Matter · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $90k–$175k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at General Matter (industrial) in Los Angeles, CA. Develop and implement scalable manufacturing processes to ensure reliable, safe systems.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, GD&T, Machining, Welding, SolidWorks
- Base pay
- $90k–$175k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $114k–$167k. This one lists $90k–$175k.
Median of the low and high ends of 117 live postings that list pay, out of 320 manufacturing engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 319 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $111k–$157k, from 104 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 53%
- New product launch 51%
- ✓ Root cause 40%
- Automation 35%
- ✓ Machining 29%
- ✓ CATIA / NX 29%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: General Matter in Los Angeles
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Full description from General MatterAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Develop and implement scalable manufacturing processes to ensure reliable, safe systems.
- ◆Collaborate with design engineers and make recommendation for improved manufacturability, performance, safety, and cost.
- ◆Build, assemble, and validate prototypes, test stands, and development units.
- ◆Perform root-cause analysis on test failures and develop hardware mitigations.
- ◆Establish manufacturing and quality practices that scale with the company and through production phases.
Basic
Qualifications
- ✓Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, portfolio of work, completed products, etc).
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- ✓5+ years of professional experience in manufacturing, development, or production engineering.
- ✓Proficient in a 3D CAD package (such as Solidworks, CATIA, NX, etc.) and the ability to make manufacturing drawings using GD&T.
- ✓Hands-on experience building hardware.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- ✓Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals.
- ✓Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals even with partial information.
- ✓Experience in a fast-paced engineering environment or a highly technical role requiring a resourceful, entrepreneurial approach to complete tasks within tight timeframes or budget constraints.
- ✓Experience with hardware in early development phases that transition to production.
- ✓Hands-on skills such as machining, welding, and assembly.
Additional
Requirements
- ✓Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
qualifications
and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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About the Company
General Matter is enriching uranium in America.
Our goal is to design, build, and operate the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States.
Our mission is to restore America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel—fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors.
Ultimately, our work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society.
We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.
We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.
Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.
About This Role
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will design, develop, and build manufacturing processes, tools and systems to take us from development phases to production. You will work with design engineers to ensure safety, performance, cost and manufacturability of parts, systems, and assemblies. You'll be hands-on assembling hardware and test stands, iterating quickly, and refining processes. You'll work within an interdisciplinary team ensuring highly reliable, manufacturable systems and making a key impact in driving the down the cost of enrichment.