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About the Role

Astro Mechanica is building a faster, more connected future by democratizing high-speed flight. We are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government. This role is critical in establishing our aircraft manufacturing line from scratch and partnering with manufacturing leaders to build a next-generation aircraft factory.

Responsibilities

• Help stand up Astro Mechanica's airframe manufacturing operation from scratch, including facilities, workflows, tooling concepts, equipment and consumables needs, with a focus on both rapid implementation and future scalability
• Work directly with the airframe engineering and design teams to translate designs, analyses, and requirements into executable manufacturing plans
• Support and coordinate layup, bonding, curing, trimming, assembly, and rework activities to meet aggressive development milestones
• Establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes, build sequences, tooling approaches, and process documentation
• Maintain strong presence on production floor to drive builds and resolve issues
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Design, Tooling, Quality, and Production teams to ensure manufacturability and smooth execution
• Create manufacturing instructions and support development of internal processes specifications
• Design tools and fixtures directly or via collaboration with internal tool design team or contractors
• Support management of tool schedule and delivery to factory and setup
• Be responsible for quality inspection of the products you will produce
• Collaborate with suppliers to develop processes, procure composite parts and materials
• Perform first article inspections to ensure initial builds meet dimensional and quality standards
• Seek out new manufacturing techniques and technologies that will increase manufacturing throughput and quality

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in high variability composite manufacturing, including prototyping and airframe fabrication
• Experience working with composite materials and processes (prepreg layup, wet layup, bonding, curing, trimming, repair, drilling and fastening)
• Experience developing manufacturing processes for complex composite layups and/or aerostructure assemblies from the ground up
• Experience working with metallic airframe components and composite-to-metal interfaces
• Experience building or scaling manufacturing operations, labs, or shops in a development or flight hardware environment
• Experience mentoring and partnering with technicians
• Experience working directly from engineering drawings, ply books, CAD models, and evolving build definitions
• Strong project management skills
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing composite tools and/or assembly fixtures
• Strong understanding of GD&T
• Experience providing DFM feedback
• Experience with quality inspection methods (dimensional, NDI, in-process)
• Familiarity with destructive and non-destructive test methods common to composites manufacturing

Skills

• Composite materials
• Manufacturing techniques
• NX
• GD&T
• DFM feedback
• Quality inspection methods
• Destructive and non-destructive test methods

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 7+ years

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan
• Self-managed and flexible time-off policy, including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time

About the Company

• Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
• Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
• We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
• We are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies—which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system—with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.
• In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
• We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
• We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
• We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

Equal Opportunity

• At Astro Mechanica, we highly value in-office work to foster collaboration and strengthen our company culture. We consider working in the office five days a week an essential part of the employee's role.
• Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.