Structural Mechanical Engineer
General Dynamics · Herndon, VA, US
Hiring signals for Mechanical Engineers
SOC 17-2141 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.
52
/ 100
Cooling
Mechanical Engineers Job Market Score
Driven by
- Pay is above the national median ($169k vs $138k national)
- Slow inflow of new postings (only 12% from the last 14 days)
- Few reposted listings (21% appear duplicated)
Mechanical Engineers job market
Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Mechanical Engineers.
- 444Active postings
- 14Posted this week
- 183Open 30+ days41% of active
- 18Remote / hybrid4% of active
- 8%List salary36 of 444
- 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
- $169kMedian annual (max)
- —Median hourly (max)
- 24dMedian agep90 49d (long tail)
Wages by category
Wages by employment type
Wages by sector
Top categories
- Engineering387
- Engineering Manager1
- Server / Host1
- Maintenance Technician1
In-demand skills
- AWS17
- Go8
- Python6
- Airflow6
- REST6
- Agile3
- C++1
- HTML1
Top sectors
- Manufacturing333
- Technology182
- Government / Public Sector144
- Healthcare36
- Retail32
- Transportation & Logistics31
Employment mix
- Unspecified401 · 90%
- Full-time21 · 5%
- Contract9 · 2%
- Intern7 · 2%
- Temporary5 · 1%
- Part-time1 · 0%
Top hiring companies
- Category
- Engineering
- Source
- gd.com
- Original link
- https://www.gd.com/careers/structural-mechanical-engineer-herndon-va-us-2026-71581-gdms-opportunity
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago (2026-04-15)
- Status
- active
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- Applied · 0
- No response · 0
- Interviewed · 0
- Rejected · 0
- Hired · 0
- Posting still active · 0
- Posting removed · 0
- Reposted · 0
- Suspicious · 0
- Description vague · 0
- Salary unclear · 0
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