Production & Prototyping Engineer

TelebortiX; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

TeleBortiX Bengaluru seeks a hands-on shop lead to own the prototype-to-batch workflow for composite airframes, CNC parts, and 3-D printed components. You will generate CAM toolpaths, write the G-code, and manage the layup and cure processes, ensuring repeatable, traceable builds.

You’ll set up the shop, define quality gates, and coordinate with vendors and internal design to optimize manufacturability and lead times. This is a combined hands-on and process-owners role.

Qualifications

• Hands-on composite fabrication including layup, curing, and QA traceability.
• Ability to generate verified CAM toolpaths and G-code, with proper workholding.
• Experience with additive printing strategies and post-processing.
• Ownership mindset: establish shop processes, inventory, and quality gates.

Responsibilities

• Composite fabrication: moulding, layup, curing, assembly, and finishing.
• CNC programming and CAM toolpath generation, setting up workholding and tooling.
• Additive printing coordination: orientation, supports, and post-processing.
• Write work instructions and travelers to ensure repeatable builds.
• First-article inspection, QA sign-off, and material traceability.
• Manage inventory, suppliers, and vendor relationships; ensure shop safety.

Skills

Hands-on fabrication

CNC CAM/G-code

3D printing

Vendor management

Tools

CATIA machining

DELMIA

CNC milling

Slicing software

Job description

TeleBortiX is building state-of-the-art airborne systems.

You are the person who takes a design and defines how it gets made. You will own the shop. You will build our prototypes with your own hands and then turn the ones that work into repeatable small-batch production — composite airframes, CNC parts, and 3-D-printed parts, from raw stock and moulds through to finished, inspected hardware. When a design engineer hands you a model, you write the method: the process plan, the toolpaths, the fixturing, the ply layout, the build sequence. When something can't be built as drawn, you're the one who says so and proposes the fix. The digital prep is yours end to end — you generate correct, verified G-code for the CNC, slice effectively for the printers, and plan and nest fabric cutting for the layups.

This is a hands-on role. You set up the processes, the quality gates, the material traceability, and the inventory system that let a build be repeated instead of re-invented. You manage our outside vendors for anything we don't do in-house, and keep the shop safe and running.

Key Responsibilities

• Composite fabrication: mould and tooling making, ply-cutting planning and nesting, wet layup and/or prepreg, vacuum bagging and resin infusion, cure cycles (oven / autoclave), demoulding, trimming, bonding, assembly, and finishing.
• CNC: program and run the mill/router for moulds, fixtures, and metal/plastic parts — generate correct, verified CAM toolpaths and G-code, set workholding, feeds and speeds, and tooling, and keep the machines maintained. This is a CAM-owning role, not machine-minding.
• Additive: own the print farm — effective slicing (orientation, supports, infill, material choice), print prep, uptime, and post-processing.
• Prototype-to-batch process: write the work instructions and travelers that make a build repeatable rather than locked in one person's head.
• Quality: first-article and dimensional inspection, QA sign-off, non-conformance and rework — and the composites-specific traceability that matters in aerospace: material lot/batch tracking, prepreg and adhesive shelf-life and out-time logging, freezer management, cure/oven logs.
• Inventory & materials: raw stock (fabric, resin, core, adhesives, filament/resin, metal/plastic stock, fasteners) and consumables (bagging film, peel ply, release agents, abrasives, PPE). Set reorder points, track lead times, and manage suppliers.
• Shop & safety: facility layout, workspace organisation, and safe handling of resins, solvents, and dust — extraction, PPE, SDS management, and hazardous-waste disposal.
• Design interface (DFM): feed manufacturability, mould strategy, build-time, and cost reality back to the design engineers early.
• Equipment & make-vs-buy: own and operate our in-house machine fleet — laser cutter, mill, and other machinery — covering operation, maintenance, calibration, spares, uptime, and equipment selection and procurement as we scale. Decide each job's route: run it on our own kit, or send it to an outside vendor and manage that vendor, folding their parts back into the build.

Requirements

Candidates should meet four of the six criteria below to apply.

• Hands-on composite fabrication — ply-cutting and nesting, layup, bagging, infusion, and cure — OR demonstrated equivalent through portfolio or shipped hardware.
• CNC: you can generate correct, verified CAM toolpaths and G-code yourself — not just operate the machine — with sound workholding, feeds, and tooling judgment.
• Additive: effective slicing and print strategy — orientation, supports, infill, material — across common processes (FDM / SLA / SLS), plus post-processing.
• You have taken parts from design intent to finished, inspected hardware and owned the process, quality, and traceability behind them.
• Genuine ownership mindset — you set up the shop, the processes, and the inventory system; you don't wait to be told what to do next.
• Experience taking work from one-off prototype to repeatable small batch: work instructions, first-article inspection, and material traceability.

Note: Candidates whose skills fall short of the criteria above may still apply if their interests are strongly aligned with TeleBortiX's vision. Make the case in your application note.

Strongly preferred

• Aerospace or UAV composite structures — fixed-wing or multi-rotor airframes.
• Depth in prepreg / autoclave and/or resin infusion; mould and tooling design and making.
• Experience in our stack — CATIA machining and/or DELMIA process planning — or strong transferable CAM (NX CAM, PowerMill, Mastercam) you can carry across.
• Multi-axis CAM; fabric-nesting / ply-cutting software.
• Aerospace-grade material traceability: out-time and shelf-life control, freezer management, cure logging.
• Shop safety and compliance: solvent/resin handling, extraction and PPE, SDS and hazmat disposal.
• Metrology and inspection — calipers, gauges, CMM, or 3-D scanning.
• Vendor and outsourcing management.

Tools & standards

• CATIA machining and DELMIA (our CAD/CAM and process-planning stack), producing correct, verified G-code
• CNC mill/router operation
• laser cutting
• slicing software and print-farm management
• fabric nesting / ply-cutting
• vacuum bagging and resin-infusion equipment
• oven / autoclave cure
• metrology and first-article inspection
• material traceability and out-time logs
• SDS and shop-safety practice.

Org Structure

You will report directly to the Director, Engineering. You will work closely with the Design Engineer(s), the Powertrain architect, the Aerodynamics Lead, and the Materials & Processes Lead.

About TeleBortiX

We build state-of-the-art airborne systems. Our engineering team is small and multi-skilled. We hire for skills, not for job titles. Every engineer here owns one primary cluster and a credible secondary.

Location, compensation, and how to apply

• Location: Bengaluru Compensation: Commensurate with experience; equity component negotiable.