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.