Integration Engineer - Avionics

Responsibilities

• Provide design feedback for manufacturability, assembly, test, integration, and transport
• Establish and maintain build roadmaps for assemblies you own; to ensure alignment between key stakeholders, drive hardware and tooling on-time deliveries, minimize build serialization, and escalate and eliminate blockers
• Develop and release build CONOPS, work instructions, standard processes and procedures, and optimize existing processes to enable high quality, high speed execution
• Support first article builds in a fast-paced, early-development environment
• Own design, process, and CapEx trades to support build and unlock key capabilities, and contribute to development of long-term, scalable manufacturing systems and infrastructure
• Drive make-vs.-buy decisions; collaborate with Engineering and Supply Chain
• Provide hands-on floor support during build and test
• Drive continuous improvement measures across the factory, including tooling, ERP / MES workflows, and internal standards and specifications

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications
• Preferred Skills And Experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building hardware in a manufacturing or integration environment
• Familiar with aerospace assembly best practices
• Experience writing build and test procedures for technicians and specialists
• Experience with electrical harness design and mechanical routing in 3D CAD software
• Collaborate with integrated product teams to ensure system-level avionics design meets needs for structures, propulsion, and software systems integration and test
• Comfortable communicating across design, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and logistics teams to ensure hardware quality and pace of execution
• Self-starter who can define and roll out new processes from scratch, working collaboratively with technicians, engineers, and external vendors
• Proficient in CAD, basic design or test analysis, and first-principles hand calculations

Preferred Skills And Experience:

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical mechanical hardware
• Strong ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and specifications
• Experience authoring and improving work instructions, travelers, and build documentation
• Familiarity with PLM/MES systems and production change control in a regulated environment
• Hands-on exposure to tooling, fixtures, or assembly aids on the manufacturing floor

Qualifications

• Must be willing to be hands-on in a manufacturing and test environment daily
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs and work safely around high-pressure systems and industrial equipment
• Extended or flexible hours may be required to support critical build and test milestones

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health care
• 401k & Retirement Plans
• Weekly Paid Office Lunches
• End of Year Bonuses
• Potential for year-end bonuses
• Stock Options
• Paid Parental Leave