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Staff Industrial Engineer, Maritime Production System Design

Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and optimize production systems for large-scale autonomous maritime systems using discrete event simulation and critical chain scheduling.

Role type

Staff Industrial Engineer (Production System Design)

Builds

Next-generation AI-driven factories for deployable static and moving surface, undersea, and sea-to-air vehicles.

Domain

Defense manufacturing / Maritime systems / Operations Research

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Discrete event simulation, Capacity/rate modeling, Production system design, Scripting for automation, Trade studies, Precedence network design

Preferred skills

Shipyard or aerospace final-assembly experience, Greenfield factory design, MES/ERP fluency (SAP, Oracle, Forge, Odoo)

Technologies

FlexSim, Simio, AnyLogic, Plant Simulation, Python, LOKI

Responsibilities

Develop discrete event simulation models to validate factory capacity; Design plant layouts, material flow paths, and space allocation; Create capacity plans and rate models with sensitivity analysis; Optimize sequencing of operations and work flow; Integrate design, supply base, facilities, equipment, and personnel; Provide technical direction on production system design for VCS and Megalodon build processes.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical direction

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