System Configuration Engineer II

About the role

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Responsibilities

• Own configuration management for your vehicle, maintaining traceability between appropriate revisions of hardware assemblies, software, and test plans.
• Own the vehicle-level CAD integration, assembly hierarchy and assembly drawings.
• Serve as a reviewer and approver for all lower-level assembly drawings.
• Work with responsible design, manufacturing, and integration engineers, and dive deep into problems and processes across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Translate programmatic change into actionable items and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Required: BS in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline required. 3+ years of focused hands-on experience with CAD design and complex assembly management, equivalent mechanical work will be considered.
• Expert in GD&T, design for manufacturing, and design for assembly.
• Strong working knowledge of fabrication and assembly methodologies, production management tools, and quality control processes.
• Exceptional comprehension of first principles in the following engineering disciplines; mechanical, structural dynamics, materials, electrical, mechatronics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, orbital mechanics, controls, and propulsion.
• Amenable to travel and schedule flexibility leading up to program milestone.
• Good communication with all position levels within the company.
• Exceptional public speaking and presentation skills.

Desired

• MS in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical field.
• Experience scripting languages and process automation.
• Experienced on Agile Project Management using Atlassian tools (JIRA, confluence, bitbucket).
• Strong working knowledge of ASME, MIL, ASTM, and/or NASA Standards, as well as Systems Engineering best practices – able to adapt processes to meet the needs of the team.
• Experience tailoring the SMC, AFSPCM equivalent range documents.

Benefits

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

Pay

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Schedule

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