Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Sensors and Avionics

What you'll do

• Own manufacturing and integration processes, documentation, tooling, test equipment, and quality activities for electronics, sensors, navigation, communications, power systems, and harnesses.
• Drive design for manufacturability, supplier capability and workmanship improvements, and reductions in production test burden.
• Lead and mentor engineers and technicians while serving as the production technical interface to internal partners and external suppliers.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of manufacturing engineering experience in aerospace, space, defense or another high-reliability industry, including taking electronic or electro-optical hardware from development into production.
• Deep knowledge of specified high-reliability electronics workmanship standards and PCBA and box-level assembly processes.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance; willing to travel up to 25%.

Nice to have

• Direct experience manufacturing satellite or spacecraft avionics, sensors or payloads, including cleanroom operations and contamination control.
• Radar, optical sensor or millimeter-wave aperture manufacturing experience.

Pay

$147,000 — $196,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

IPC-610/620 Class 3, IPC J-STD-001 Space Addendum, NASA-STD-8739 series, Foundry, Teamcenter, SMT, Altium, AutoCAD Electrical