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Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Barracuda

Ashville, OH (Arsenal 1)💼 Full-time💰 $126,000–$126,000🗓 2026-07-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and optimize manufacturing processes for autonomous air vehicles (AAVs) and weapons systems, ensuring high-quality production from prototyping to scale.

Role type

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Defense Hardware)

Builds

Autonomous air vehicles (Barracuda family) and missile systems for U.S. military and allies

Domain

Defense technology, autonomous systems, hardware manufacturing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Design for Manufacturability (DFM), tool design and selection, process creation and optimization, vendor sourcing, quality planning, documentation management, capacity planning, continuous improvement analysis, hardware fabrication (machining/fabrication/soldering/assembly)

Preferred skills

Harness & PCBA fabrication, SMT process setup/monitoring, R/C and autonomous flight vehicle experience, large-scale change management, security clearance maintenance

Technologies

SMT processes, flight controllers, autonomous flight systems

Responsibilities

Execute manufacturing from prototyping to full-scale production; Collaborate with design engineers to integrate DFM best practices; Own documentation for hardware production at scale (MBOMs, work instructions); Analyze metrics for cost reduction and capacity increase; Travel to suppliers for sourcing and process implementation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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