Avionics Manufacturing Engineer III

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Cedar Park, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision plans

Life and disability insurance

Stock bonuses

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is seeking a talented Avionics Manufacturing Engineer to lead the scale-up of in-house production capabilities in Cedar Park, Texas.

You will drive design release-to-delivery processes, improve quality and throughput, and work closely with design and production teams to enable on-time launches. The role requires strong hands-on experience in hardware manufacturing, IPC/standards familiarity, and a track record of process improvements in high-mix environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of design, manufacturing, and/or production of mechanical or electrical hardware.
• Experience with electronic box build, battery build, or cable harness builds.
• Hands-on approach with continuous improvement and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Support avionics production from design release through production delivery.
• Optimize and automate manufacturing and test processes to improve quality and throughput.
• Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and product revisions.
• Resolve non-conformances and implement root cause corrective actions.
• Collaborate with design team to optimize manufacturability and standardization.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Problem solving

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical/Mechanical/Aerospace engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

3D CAD software

IPC standards knowledge

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Mental health services
• Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

• 12 weeks paid maternity leave
• 4 weeks paid spouse leave
• $20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
• Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

• $10k/year towards trade school or college
• Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills

Space for Your Future

• Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
• $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

Firefly Aerospace is looking for a talented and highly motivated Avionics Manufacturing Engineer to help lead the charge to scale up our in-house production capabilities to align with the launch schedule and exciting product roadmap. This is a great opportunity to shape the team and production processes that will guide the future of avionics production at Firefly Aerospace.

This position will sit in our electronics manufacturing facility in Cedar Park, Texas.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support avionics production in all aspects from design release through production delivery by constantly removing blockers and solving problems
• Optimize and automate manufacturing and test processes to improve quality and throughput
• Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and product revisions
• Resolve non-conformances found in the production process and implement root cause corrective actions
• Work closely with the design team to optimize manufacturability and design standardization
• Identify, plan and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to meet production requirements by working closely with all stakeholders to prepare business cases
• Develop, introduce, and maintain new planning, production, quality, ERP, data collection and analysis, and other processes where none exist
• Support integration, test, and launch operations as required

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in design, manufacturing, and/or production of mechanical or electrical hardware (including internships and/or collegiate extracurricular projects)
• 5+ years of experience with electronic box build, battery build or cable harness builds
• Experience with electronic box build, battery build, or cable harness build
• Self‑motivated to implement goals and solve complex problems with little supervision
• Hands‑on approach with a focus on continuous improvement through creative problem solving
• Effective communication in both technical and non-technical conversations
• Advanced Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace engineering or equivalent
• 9+ years of experience in design, manufacturing, and/or production of mechanical or electrical hardware (including internships and/or collegiate extracurricular projects)
• 9+ years of experience with electronic box build, battery build or cable harness builds
• Experience standing up low‑volume, high mix production processes and tracking systems.
• Experience developing manufacturing processes for new types of electronic products
• New equipment procurement and process setup
• Experience modeling with 3D CAD software
• Familiarity with IPC standards such as IPC/WHMA-A‑620, IPC-A-610, and IPC-J-STD-001.
• Experience creating work instructions and standards for operators
• Working knowledge of typical manufacturing execution systems and quality management systems.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, pet Insurance, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.