Manufacturing Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite role

Salary: $104,000–$156,000 USD annually

Company

Builds rockets and launch systems, including the Terran R vehicle and the manufacturing systems required to produce it at scale.

What you will do

• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during development, prototype builds, and flight builds.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, reliability, production, and external vendor teams.
• Support primary-structure assembly work centers on the shop floor by clearing barriers and keeping production moving.
• Drive process improvements across multiple work centers using feedback from the first Terran R build.
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices for high-fidelity manufacturing processes.
• Standardize manufacturing processes across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical, or another engineering discipline.
• 2+ years of progressive, related experience.
• Experience supporting complicated assembly builds and making regular risk decisions to disposition build issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills for interfacing with engineering and manufacturing groups and improving manufacturability.
• Strong fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, process improvement, factory design, fastening and joining, and machining.
• Expert knowledge of drilling and trimming operations, manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods, and GD&T.

Nice to have

• Experience with forming, welding, drilling, trimming, and fastening operations for aerospace products.
• Successful new product introduction of aerospace hardware into manufacturing, testing, and production systems.
• Project management experience in a fast-paced environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Work involves close collaboration between engineers and technicians with real-time manufacturing feedback.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation available.