Senior Build Engineer

Industrious Ventures; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amca in El Segundo seeks an engineer to bring new product designs to life by co-designing products and manufacturing processes with Design and Test teams. You will provide engineering knowledge to quickly execute designs and manufacture them at our facilities to expand Amca’s product catalog.

The role requires hands-on experience in prototyping, manufacturability assessment, and close collaboration with cross-functional engineers to ensure designs are producible at scale.

Qualifications

• Must be hands-on and practical—able to build, test, and troubleshoot in real-world environments.
• Independent and creative; thrives with ownership and minimal oversight.
• Experience with mechanical design and manufacturing processes; apply first-principles thinking to constraints.
• Proficient in CAD, PLM/PDM systems, GD&T, and Materials & Processing.

Responsibilities

• Own prototyping and first builds of new hardware designs.
• Work with Design Engineering teams to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed.
• Take full ownership of manufacturing and build of new product designs.
• Prototype new components with manufacturability, integration, and performance as core constraints.
• Work with Test Engineering to create any needed test tooling.

Skills

Hands-on

Independent

Detail-oriented

Curious

Cross-functional

First principles

CAD

GD&T

Tools

CAD

PLM/PDM

GD&T

Materials & Processing

Job description

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview:

You will take new product designs and bring them to life. You will concurrently design Amca products and manufacturing processes with the Design and Test Engineering teams. You’ll provide engineering knowledge to quickly execute new product designs and manufacture them at our production facilities to expand Amca’s product catalog.

Responsibilities:

• Own prototyping and first builds of new hardware designs

• Work with Design Engineering teams to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed

• Take full ownership of manufacturing and build of new product designs

• Prototype new components with manufacturability, integration, and performance as core constraints

• Work with Test Engineering teams to assist in creating any test tooling needed

• Work closely with Design Engineers to ensure that new designs are manufacturable at production facilities, and that DFM feedback is implemented

• Manage tooling configurations (drawing revisions, BOM structure, and part configuration) in accordance with aerospace standards and internal design and documentation controls

• Provide continuous feedback to Amca engineering teams to ensure that are products and processes fully optimized for reliability and cost

• Support build and manufacturing processes in our internal shops

• Assist with equipment selection and equipment onboarding

• Own manufacturing processes as the subject matter expert

• Support Amca with factory diligence and company development

• Evaluate product catalogs to help determine where the largest opportunities lie for catalog expansion

• Assist in the evaluation of factory designs and manufacturing engineering

• Work with cross functional engineering teams to expand manufacturing capabilities

Qualifications:

• Exceptionally curious and fast learner.

• Able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes.

• Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements.

• Hands-on and practical - comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real-world environments.

• Independent and creative; thrives with ownership and minimal oversight.

• Experience with mechanical design as well as manufacturing processes, applying first-principles thinking to structural, thermal, material and production constraints.

• Proficient in CAD, PLM/PDM systems, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and Materials & Processing (M&P).

Annual Salary Range

• $140,000 — $180,000 USD

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

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