Manufacturing Engineer
Own manufacturing and production of solar-powered stratospheric aircraft hardware from prototype through scaled production at the El Segundo factory. Requires 1+ years building real mechanical, electrical, or aerospace hardware with strong DFM collaboration skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototype through low-rate and scaled production
- Design and improve build processes for airframes, avionics, power systems, and integration
- Develop tooling, fixtures, work instructions, and quality checks that enable speed and repeatability
- Partner with design engineers to make hardware more manufacturable, reliable, and scalable
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions on build and test issues
- Support integration, environmental testing, and flight operations
- Help stand up production capabilities inside our El Segundo factory
Requirements
- 1+ years working as a manufacturing, production, or build engineer on real hardware
- Hands-on experience building mechanical, electrical, or aerospace systems
- Strong intuition for tolerances, processes, and how things actually get built
- Experience working closely with design engineering teams
- Ability to move fast, own outcomes, and solve problems on the factory floor
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Top market salary and bonuses
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Factory in El Segundo
- Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
- Small team, massive responsibility
- High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
- Dream desk setup
- Daily lunch
- Unlimited Celsius
Skills
Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering, Build Engineering, Mechanical Systems, Electrical Systems, Aerospace Systems, Tooling Design, Process Development, Root Cause Analysis, Design For Manufacturability
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