Manufacturing Engineer - Composites

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Torrance, CA, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Defense • Manufacturing
The Role
Design and manufacture composite parts at scale, including completing DFM, developing production tooling, testing parts, and improving factory processes toward automation. Collaborate with customers and software engineers to translate manufacturing constraints into Helicon’s supply-chain, quoting, pricing, and simulation platform. The role requires hands-on composite manufacturing experience, particularly with high-volume processes and hydraulic presses.
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

  • Work with customers and complete DFM to make parts manufacturable at scale

  • Design and own production tooling for composite parts.

  • Master the factory floor and push process capabilities every day towards full automation.

  • Collaborate with world-class software engineers to teach real manufacturing constraints to Argos (our OS for supply chain, quoting, pricing, simulation)

Who We're Looking For

Need:

  • You have designed, built, tested composite parts from scratch.

  • Experience with high volume composites processes and hydraulic presses

Nice to have:

  • Experience with automated manufacturing lines

  • Experience with machining and 3D printing for tooling

We're not for you if:

  • You think composites will never be used at industrial scale

  • You think software can't learn the artisanal work that today limits composite part volumes

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

  • Designed, built, and tested composite parts from scratch
  • Experience with high-volume composite processes
  • Experience with hydraulic presses
  • Experience with automated manufacturing lines
  • Experience with machining and 3D printing for tooling
  • U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, protected individual status, or eligibility 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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