Technical Sales Engineer – Composites Manufacturing

Layup Parts; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Equity option grants

401k plan

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Layup Parts is a manufacturing technology company in California delivering rapid quotes for aerospace, defense, robotics, and more. The role involves evaluating RFQs, performing DFM feedback, reviewing docs, and developing cost estimates with materials, tooling, labor, and lead times.

You will collaborate with customers and internal teams to ensure accurate quotes, create handover packages for manufacturing, and help build scalable estimating systems and software rules.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, or motorsport industries.
• Strong understanding of composite part manufacturing and tooling.
• Experience in startups or small teams in fast-paced environments with minimal processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate incoming RFQs for composite parts and tooling.
• Perform high-level DFM reviews and provide manufacturability feedback early in the quoting process.
• Review all customer provided documentation for the purpose of providing an accurate quotation.
• Develop project estimates including materials, tooling, labor, manufacturing methods, quality requirements, and lead times.
• Create high-level tooling designs for the purpose of providing a cost and lead time estimate.
• Collaborate with customers to iterate on technical requirements, timelines, and scope.
• Create project handover documents for accepted quotes and provide high-level designs and assumptions for handoff to manufacturing.
• Partner with manufacturing, operations, quality, and engineering teams to ensure smooth project handoff.
• Help develop scalable estimating systems, costing frameworks, and internal software tools as Layup grows.
• Work with Layup Parts' software team to provide estimating rules integrated into company-made software.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer communication

Documentation

Time management

Multi-tasking

Initiative

Job description

At Layup Parts,we'redeveloping the technology that will build the future.

We're a manufacturing technology company replacing months of lead time with days, using proprietary software, automation, and advanced manufacturing systems built for speed. Our customers are inventing what's next, in aerospace, defense, robotics, and beyond. To keep up with them, manufacturing has to change. That's what we're building.

What You'll Do:

• Evaluate incoming RFQs for composite parts and tooling
• Perform high-level DFM reviews and provide customers with manufacturability feedback early in the quoting process
• Review all customer provided documentation (including quality manuals and other contract requirements) for the purpose of providingan accuratequotation.
• Develop project estimates including materials, tooling, labor, manufacturing methods, quality requirements, and lead times
• Create high- level tooling designs for the purpose of providing a cost and lead time estimate
• Collaborate with customers to iterate on technical requirements, timelines, and scope
• Create project handover documents for accepted quotes. Provide all high-level designs, estimating assumptions, contract requirements, and other notables required for a clean handoff to manufacturing team for project execution
• Partner closely with manufacturing, operations, quality, and engineering teams to ensure smooth project handoff
• Help develop scalable estimating systems, costing frameworks, and internal software tools as Layup grows
• Work with Layup Parts' software team to provide estimating rules that are integrated into company-made software
• Position may require extended hours or weekend work

What We're Looking For:

• Be awesome! Be the person you want to work with
• 5+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, or motorsport industries
• Strong understanding of composite part manufacturing processes and tooling methodologies
• Excellent written, verbal, and group communication skills
• Comfortable communicating with customers and external stakeholders
• Capable of thoroughly documenting your work for others to understand
• Excellent time management and multitasking skills; addresses all work with sense of urgency
• Experience in startups or small teams in fast-paced and quickly changing environments that have little to no established systems or structure

Preferred:

• Prior experience as an estimator in manufacturing environments
• Familiarity withstandard aerospace quality requirements along with AS9100 basics
• Comfortable reviewing quality manuals and other contract documents; able to translate requirements into cost adjustments while quoting
• Excited by the prospect of 2x or 3xsalesgrowth, with the multi-facility and multi-state growth

Equal Opportunity

Layup is an equal-opportunityemployer. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair ChanceInitiativefor Hiring Ordinance.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green cardholder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITARhere.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Final compensation is based on your experience, skills, and what you bring to the table.

Full Benefits Package

Medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, company-paid life insurance

Equity Option Grants

401k plan

Paid Time Off

Unlimited PTO + 9 Federal Holidays