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Leads advanced manufacturing and New Product Introduction activities for mechanical aerospace components. Responsibilities include optimizing production processes, managing Manufacturing Readiness Level requirements, driving DFM and continuous improvement, analyzing manufacturing data, coordinating suppliers and capital needs, ensuring safety and standards compliance, and mentoring team members. The role collaborates across Engineering, Sourcing, Program Management, and manufacturing teams while supporting IPDS and APQP objectives.

Leads manufacturing process development and technology implementation to improve quality, efficiency, cost, yield, and production readiness. Reviews designs for manufacturability, manages APQP, MRL, UPC, capital, risk, and throughput initiatives, and coordinates with engineering, sourcing, suppliers, production cells, and program management. Drives production transitions, lean and DFM activities, milestone achievement, budget planning, and manufacturing standard work. The role also includes people leadership, talent development, and team engagement.

Own vehicle subsystem hardware through design release, assembly, testing, and delivery. Develop build flows, work instructions, test procedures, tooling strategies, and manufacturing systems for scalable production. Support first-article builds, provide hands-on floor troubleshooting, resolve non-conformances, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement. Coordinate design, supply chain, production, test, technicians, and vendors to ensure part readiness, quality, tooling availability, and schedule alignment.

Own aerospace hardware through design release, assembly, testing, and delivery. Develop build flows, work instructions, test procedures, tooling strategies, and manufacturing documentation. Support first-article builds, provide hands-on floor assistance, resolve nonconformances, perform root-cause analysis, and drive process improvements. Coordinate with design, supply chain, production, test, technicians, and vendors to ensure readiness, quality, and schedule alignment. This is a second-shift position beginning at 3 p.m. PT.

Own aerospace hardware from design release through build, test, and delivery. Develop build flows, work instructions, test procedures, tooling strategies, and production documentation. Support first-article and high-volume assembly builds, provide hands-on floor troubleshooting, resolve non-conformances, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement. Coordinate with design, supply chain, production, test, technicians, and vendors to ensure hardware readiness, quality, and schedule alignment.

Own aerospace subassembly hardware from design release through build, test, and delivery. Develop work instructions, build flows, test procedures, tooling strategies, and scalable manufacturing processes. Support first-article builds, provide hands-on floor troubleshooting, resolve non-conformances, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement. Coordinate with design, supply chain, production, test, technicians, and vendors to ensure readiness, quality, and schedule alignment.

Provides hands-on engineering support for production operations, initially in Pick/Pack, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and labor targets. Owns standard work, labor standards, visual controls, process flow, ergonomics, and material presentation. Leads continuous improvement and 6S initiatives, reduces defects and rework through root-cause analysis and error prevention, and collaborates with Production, QA, Maintenance, Supply Chain, EHSS, and Facilities. Cross-trains across production areas and supports both daily execution and longer-term improvements.

Supports aerospace quality engineering through root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, audits, supplier quality management, quality control planning, customer complaint investigations, change notice approvals, and quality metrics reporting. Uses Six Sigma tools, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to improve processes, reduce defects, and strengthen product reliability and compliance.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Metropolis Recognition Platform, including edge-to-cloud pipelines, identity resolution, real-time decisioning, privacy and consent models, observability, and progressive delivery. Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, computer vision, data, security, platform teams, and partners. Establish RFCs, SLOs, testing standards, operational practices, and architectural best practices while mentoring engineers and managing high-scale distributed systems.

Owns end-to-end quality for Snap’s Direct Revenue experiences, including test strategy, mobile automation, compatibility, accessibility, privacy, compliance, localization, defect diagnosis, release readiness, and quality sign-off. The role partners across teams to manage integration risks, reviews code and tests, participates in on-call rotations, and uses AI responsibly to improve engineering efficiency. Candidates need mobile testing expertise, object-oriented programming skills, agile SDLC experience, and proficiency with standard quality engineering tools.

Develops and implements manufacturing processes for satellite structures and propulsion. Reviews designs for manufacturability, creates work instructions/BOMs/SOPs, coordinates vendors, leads transition from low-rate to higher-rate production, and applies root cause analysis and process improvements. Requires second-shift work and eligibility for U.S. security clearance.

Develops and integrates vehicle management software for aerospace and autonomy platforms. Creates verification strategies, test plans, simulators, hardware-in-the-loop environments, automated test frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines. Executes manual and automated testing, investigates defects, documents results, and supports software quality, compliance, and cross-functional test delivery. The role requires close collaboration with systems, flight software, integration, and mission operations teams.

Develop and execute environmental test procedures for spacecraft hardware (vibration, thermal, TVAC). Maintain test equipment, author SOPs, troubleshoot failures, implement process improvements and automation to increase throughput and ensure space-grade reliability. Support qualification and acceptance campaigns and enable manufacturing test scalability.

Develop, qualify, and implement manufacturing processes for satellite structures and propulsion. Review designs for manufacturability, create work instructions and SOPs, lead process transition from low-rate to higher-rate production, and perform root-cause analysis with engineering corrective actions.

Leads systems engineering activities for proprietary space programs, including requirements development, interface control, architecture, integration, verification, validation, and testing. Develops ground segment operational products, supports mission operations and ConOps, resolves cross-functional technical issues, and applies model-based systems engineering and automation. The role also leads requirements management, risk analysis, test planning, and technical teams while mentoring and training engineers.

Leads multidisciplinary systems engineering teams across architecture, requirements, design, integration, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance. Provides technical leadership, ensures process discipline and program commitments, manages risks, develops architecture and requirements, and contributes to product roadmaps and technology plans for space missions, ground systems, and mission integration.

Leads systems engineering activities for proprietary space programs, including requirements management, system architecture, integration, verification, validation, and testing. Develops test plans and operational products, resolves cross-functional technical issues, evaluates system performance and interfaces, and supports mission operations. The role is fully onsite, supports scaled agile development, and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance or qualifying recent investigation/continuous vetting.

Leads systems engineering activities for proprietary space and ground systems programs, including requirements development and management, interface control documentation, architecture, integration, testing, verification, validation, risk management, and technical issue resolution. Supports concept of operations, product development, configuration management, automation, model-based systems engineering, and scaled agile delivery. The role is fully onsite and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance and U.S. Person status.

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys safety-critical flight software for Relativity Space’s Terran R rocket. Responsibilities include architecting real-time systems, integrating guidance and control algorithms, processing vehicle sensor data, controlling equipment, developing telemetry infrastructure, supporting hardware and physics simulations, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

The role involves designing, implementing, and testing guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for aerospace vehicles, along with developing simulation models and flight software using MATLAB and C/C++. Candidates will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy systems in testing and operational phases.

Lead and perform systems engineering for MILSATCOM ground mission planning systems: define and verify requirements, design interfaces and architecture, support integration and test, ensure system security, reliability and maintainability, mentor teams, coordinate with suppliers and government stakeholders, and present technical material at program reviews.

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing network infrastructure, ensuring security and scalability while mentoring junior staff.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering across classified satellite programs and develops a new space vehicle variant. Oversees product definition, systems and software engineering, design integration, validation, testing, evaluation, certification, supplier work, requirements tracing, risk management, schedules, resources, and technical execution. Establishes engineering processes, tools, metrics, responsibilities, and continuous improvements while coordinating capabilities including power, thermal, communications, propulsion, mechanical design, attitude control, survivability, and mission payload interfaces.

Design, implement, and verify GN&C algorithms and 6-DOF dynamics simulations for spacecraft, re-entry and hypersonic vehicles. Implement/validate flight software (MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++), apply astrodynamics and flight mechanics, support integration, flight test, operations troubleshooting, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate prototypes to flight.

Plans and executes end-to-end space system integration and test programs covering spacecraft, ground systems, software, hardware, and external interfaces. Develops test requirements, procedures, scripts, and automation; performs lab and flight hardware testing; troubleshoots issues; supports verification, validation, sell-off, launch, and operations readiness. Coordinates multifunctional teams, presents technical reviews, designs and operates special test equipment, and contributes to process improvements.