AMCA
Senior Build Engineer
$140K–$180K
El Segundo, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026
- Location
- El Segundo, CA
El Segundo, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
- All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR.
About the job
Owns prototyping, first builds, and manufacturing processes for new hardware products, coordinating with design and test teams to make products manufacturable and support production.
What you'll do
- Prototype and lead first builds of new hardware designs; own their manufacturing processes.
- Collaborate with Design and Test Engineering on manufacturability, test tooling, and design feedback.
- Support production shops, equipment onboarding, factory evaluation, and manufacturing capability expansion.
What they ask for
- Experience with mechanical design and manufacturing processes, applying first-principles thinking to structural, thermal, material, and production constraints.
- Proficiency in CAD, PLM/PDM systems, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and Materials & Processing (M&P).
- Ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements.
- Hands-on ability to build, test, and troubleshoot in real-world environments.
Pay
$140,000 — $180,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CAD, PLM/PDM systems, GD&T, Materials & Processing (M&P)
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