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NPI Systems Engineer - Solar Center of Excellence

Central Texas💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own end-to-end integration verification for New Product Introduction (NPI) lines bringing next-generation spacecraft solar arrays into high-volume production, ensuring the manufacturing system is scalable and stable.

Role type

Senior NPI Systems Engineer (Manufacturing/Industrialization)

Builds

High-rate production lines for spacecraft solar arrays

Domain

Aerospace manufacturing, solar array production systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

end-to-end value stream integration, capacity/availability/throughput modeling, process capability analysis, instrumentation development, production architecture definition, PFMEA linkage, cross-functional technical leadership

Preferred skills

high-rate/high-reliability industrialization (semiconductor/battery/medical/automotive), greenfield production planning, test-capacity-limited line architecture, SPC and measurement system analysis, high-rate automation specification, spacecraft solar arrays expertise

Technologies

automated production equipment, environmental chambers, vibration/EMI/EMC test systems, flash/IV/electroluminescence testers

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end integration verification of the NPI value stream and interfaces between process areas; Build and maintain capacity, availability, and throughput models to determine rate closure; Characterize integrated system behavior through hands-on instrumentation implementation; Establish rate conditions design and verification methods for takt, capability, and throughput targets; Author production architecture requirements for modularity and capacity margin; Derive rate and interface requirements for equipment and tooling specifications; Build producibility feedback tooling to influence early design choices; Carry proven changes from NPI to production with process capability evidence.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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