Engineering Manager, Arc Vehicle Mechanical & TPS

Front Door Defense; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion is seeking an Engineering Manager, Arc Vehicle Mechanical in Los Angeles to lead the team responsible for the mechanical design, analysis, build support, integration, and qualification of Arc vehicle structures, mechanisms, and TPS. You will own delivery of Arc's primary structures and related systems.

You will manage a high-performing team, coordinate with production for manufacturability, and ensure rigorous validation and testing across structural and TPS domains, in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
• Typically 8+ years of experience developing aerospace vehicle structures, mechanisms, TPS, or similar hardware.
• Typically 2+ years of formal people-management experience with a proven leadership record.
• Strong background in mechanical design, structural mechanics, load paths, joints, fasteners, materials, and manufacturing.
• Experience managing aerospace programs through design, environmental qualification, and flight operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Arc Vehicle Mechanical team's daily execution, technical direction, people management, and engineering development.
• Own the technical delivery of the Arc primary vehicle structure, associated mechanisms, and TPS manufacture, build, and integration.
• Partner with Production on manufacturability, tooling, inspection methods, process qualification, production capacity, and long-lead material planning.
• Coordinate and define mechanical interfaces, installation requirements, access provisions, load paths, and verification responsibilities.
• Oversee structural analysis and validation, including first-principles calculations, finite-element analysis, joint assessment, tolerance analysis, and test correlation.
• Lead planning and execution of structural, mechanical, and TPS development, qualification, acceptance, and vehicle-level testing.
• Build and mentor a high-performing mechanical engineering team.

Skills

Mechanical design

Structural mechanics

Load paths

Joints & fasteners

Materials

Manufacturing processes

People management

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering

Master's or Ph.D. in related field

Tools

CAD

Finite-Element Analysis (FEM)

Job description

Inversion is seeking an Engineering Manager, Arc Vehicle Mechanical in Los Angeles to lead the team responsible for the mechanical design, analysis, build support, integration, and qualification of Arc vehicle structures, mechanisms, and TPS. You will own delivery of Arc's primary structures and related systems.

You will manage a high-performing team, coordinate with production for manufacturability, and ensure rigorous validation and testing across structural and TPS domains, in a fast-paced