Castelion
Principal Build Reliability Engineer
Torrance, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Torrance, CA
19951 Mariner Ave, Torance, CA 90503 - Experience
- Minimum 5+ years in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role.
- Education
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, or physics.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires eligibility to access export-controlled information without additional export licensing: U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or otherwise eligible to obtain required authorizations. A security clearance or other government authorization may be required if the position is designated accordingly.
About the job
Ensures flight components and assemblies are reliable by improving manufacturing quality, inspection processes, and production controls.
What you'll do
- Represent quality objectives in design reviews and develop manufacturing and inspection plans for new products.
- Analyze production quality data, lead root-cause and corrective-action investigations, and prevent recurrence of issues.
- Coordinate first-build reviews, manage nonconforming hardware, and audit production processes for quality and safety.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, or physics.
- Minimum 5+ years in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting production of complex electro-mechanical, mechanical, or composites systems in high-volume work centers and/or during production ramp-up.
- Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action, APQP, Metrology, PFMEA, and Control Plans.
Tools
Lean principles, Six Sigma, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Metrology, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, measurement systems analysis (MSA)
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