Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Defense Hardware Startup)

A rapidly growing defense-technology company with active government contracts wants a seasoned manufacturing engineer to take ownership of production for critical vehicle components. The environment is zero-to-one: the job is moving from prototype builds toward high-volume production lines.

What you’ll own

• A key subsystem or part of the vehicle, including its manufacturing processes, capacity, reliability and efficiency
• How complex hardware gets made and scaled, whether solid rocket motors, composites, adhesive bonding, machined parts or specialty material treatments
• The shift from development-stage builds to assembly lines able to deliver thousands of units a year
• Process documents such as safety standards, test procedures, work instructions and manufacturing BOMs
• Joint work with design engineers on design-for-manufacturing decisions, and lining up the support required to hit deliverables

Profile

• Five to fifteen years of hands-on manufacturing engineering for complex hardware in aerospace, automotive or defense
• A record of building and scaling capacity from scratch, not only maintaining existing lines
• Direct experience with fabrication, assembly or testing rather than planning alone
• Engineering degree from a reputable university
• Resume language that shows ownership and measurable results
• Experience in tooling design, DFM or high-rate hardware production is a plus

On-site in Los Angeles, five days a week. Applicants must be US persons able to obtain a security clearance; no visa sponsorship.