Operations and Systems Engineering Leader (Polymer Additive Manufacturing)

Location: On-site in Texarkana, Texas, United States. Travel up to 20%, including international supplier visits. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required for ITAR compliance.

Company

hirify.global builds autonomous factories combining AI, software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing for aerospace and defense production.

What you will do

• Lead polymer additive manufacturing production operations, including scheduling, throughput, yield, utilization, and on-time delivery.
• Integrate polymer AM machines, peripherals, and cell infrastructure into the OPUS platform, including connectivity, telemetry, traceability, machine states, and safety interlocks.
• Define system requirements, interface control documents, integration kits, machine acceptance criteria, FAT/SAT protocols, commissioning checklists, and validation plans.
• Develop automation for powder and material handling, build volume exchange, part removal, depowdering, cleaning, material flow, and operator ergonomics.
• Partner with machine OEMs, automation integrators, and suppliers on APIs, controller access, logging, remote operations, calibration, serviceability, and joint development roadmaps.
• Build and lead a team across machine operations, engineering, controls, automation, and integration while improving reliability, maintainability, throughput, and production readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, such as mechanical, electrical, controls, robotics, or manufacturing engineering.
• 5–7 years of experience in polymer additive manufacturing operations, systems engineering, equipment engineering, automation, or factory-scale integration.
• Deep familiarity with polymer AM technologies such as Stratasys SAF, HP Multi Jet Fusion, FDM, SLA, or SLS, plus polymer materials including PA11 or PA12.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience building and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience integrating complex equipment with MES, SCADA, equipment-management systems, or manufacturing data pipelines, as well as production capacity planning, scheduling, yield management, and automation deployment.
• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements for ITAR work, including U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling polymer AM from low-rate to high-volume production and optimizing powder bed fusion or material extrusion systems for throughput and yield.
• Relationships with polymer AM OEMs such as HP, Stratasys, or EOS.
• Experience manufacturing components for small unmanned aircraft systems or other unmanned systems.
• Master’s degree in engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• 401(k) plan.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Equity participation.
• Relocation support may be provided in certain situations based on business need.