Head of Operations

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Torrance, CA, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Defense • Manufacturing
The Role
Owns high-impact operational projects with the CEO and CTO, collaborates with Software on systems for physical operations, designs scalable data-driven workflows, develops supplier and manufacturing partnerships, and manages equipment and material delivery for the first factory. The role may also coordinate automated manufacturing-line buildouts and scale physical manufacturing operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

Helicon's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to advanced materials. We combine AI software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to reinvent how the West maintains a competitive edge.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care about what you’ve built. At Helicon, everyone owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. Every day we build what most think is impossible.

We're backed by the investors who were first believers in Applied Intuition, Valar Atomics, Factory, Astranis, Flock Safety and Relativity Space.

What You'll Do

  • You will own special projects working directly with the CEO/CTO

  • Work directly with Software to inform the operating system for the company's physical operations

  • Design scalable, data-driven processes that optimize our workflows

  • Build relationships with the right external partners (suppliers, manufacturers and more)

  • Own the delivery of equipment and materials as we building out factory 1

Who We're Looking For

Need:

  • You thrive balancing 1000 things at once

  • Be the person everyone goes to when there's a fire

Nice to have:

  • Experience standing up and coordinating the buildout of automated manufacturing lines

  • You have built and scaled physical manufacturing operations

We're not for you if:

  • You want narrow scope and can't make decisions yourself

  • You avoid making hard calls without perfect data

Why Join

Bethlehem for steel. Helicon for composites.

For too long the most advanced materials in the world have been left to the exquisite, we're industrializing composites enabling the systems of the future to be built at mass scale.

We want the best people and have no bureaucracy. That includes covering meals and paying for products that make you more productive and our partners stronger.

ITAR Requirements

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. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Skills Required

  • Ability to manage many priorities simultaneously
  • Ability to make independent decisions and handle urgent operational issues
  • Experience standing up and coordinating automated manufacturing lines
  • Experience building and scaling physical manufacturing operations
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required ITAR authorizations
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The Company
6 Employees
Year Founded: 2026

What We Do

Helicon Industries is a Los Angeles-based manufacturing company developing advanced composite parts for unmanned systems. Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to advanced materials by building autonomous factories that can mass-produce composite components. The company combines AI software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to industrialize composites and support stronger, lighter systems for air, sea, and space applications at scale.

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