NPI Systems Engineer - Solar Center of Excellence
Core
Own end-to-end integration verification for New Product Introduction (NPI) lines bringing next-generation spacecraft solar arrays into production, ensuring the manufacturing system is scalable and stable for high volume.
Role type
Senior NPI Systems Engineer (Manufacturing/Industrialization)
Builds
High-rate production lines for spacecraft solar arrays
Domain
Aerospace manufacturing / Solar array production
Required skills
End-to-end value stream integration, capacity/throughput modeling, instrumentation development, production architecture definition, PFMEA linkage, cross-functional execution, quantitative system verification
Preferred skills
High-rate/high-reliability industrialization (semiconductor, battery, medical, automotive), greenfield production planning, SPC and process capability analysis, high-rate automation specification, spacecraft solar arrays experience
Technologies
Automated production equipment, environmental chambers, vibration/EMI/EMC test systems, data architecture tools
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end integration verification of NPI value stream and interfaces between process areas; Build and maintain capacity, availability, and throughput models; Characterize integrated system behavior with hands-on instrumentation; Establish rate conditions design and verification methods; Author production architecture requirements; Derive rate and interface requirements for equipment and tooling; Build producibility feedback tooling; Carry proven changes from NPI toward production with process capability evidence.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
