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Develops and implements manufacturing processes for advanced autonomous aircraft, including composites and metallic components. Builds production facilities, procures equipment, designs tooling, creates manufacturing documentation, conducts feasibility and production-readiness reviews, and leads prototype production through full-scale manufacturing. Collaborates with aircraft designers on design for manufacturing and supports quality-control activities in a fast-paced aerospace and defense environment.

Lead end-to-end design and development of composite aircraft structures including CAD modeling, initial sizing, structural analysis, DFM, prototype and production support, and cross-functional coordination. Establish design standards, mentor junior engineers, and ensure manufacturability and compliance with aviation and DoD certification requirements.

Develop and extend real-time embedded software for aircraft avionics, autonomy, and ground-control systems. Integrate sensors, payloads, networking, and aircraft capabilities; build SIL/HIL test architectures; develop simulation models; and own software through hardware bring-up, integration, testing, and vehicle-level troubleshooting. The role involves safety-critical aerospace software and collaboration across hardware and software teams.

Support composite aircraft fabrication, tooling, bonding, curing, trimming, finishing, inspection, material characterization, coupon testing, process trials, and data analysis. Investigate manufacturing issues, identify root causes, develop corrective actions, and create technical documentation such as work instructions, test reports, and process specifications. The intern will own a scoped project and present the results while working in laboratory and manufacturing environments.

Own top-of-funnel sourcing for software engineering roles, including backend, frontend, autonomy, and forward-deployed positions. Within the first year, expand into sourcing aircraft talent across propulsion, structures, avionics, manufacturing, and production. Responsibilities include researching candidates on GitHub, writing personalized outreach, building effective searches, managing requisitions, maintaining accurate recruiting data, and partnering directly with hiring managers in a fast-paced defense technology startup.

Lead the design and development of major aircraft composite structures, including wings, fuselage sections, empennage, and bonded assemblies. Define structural architecture, laminate strategies, joints, load paths, tooling, and assembly approaches. Mentor structures engineers, collaborate with stress and manufacturing teams, and drive designs through PDR, CDR, first article, structural testing, and first flight. The role is hands-on, onsite in Oxnard, California, and requires experience with large-scale aircraft structures and full development cycles.

Lead IT operations and end-user support: administer Entra ID/Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Intune and Jamf; manage onboarding/offboarding, device lifecycle, software deployment, patching, asset inventory, escalated troubleshooting, and office IT. Improve processes, documentation, and scalability while supporting cloud and on-prem environments for a growing defense/aerospace startup.

Lead IT security architect responsible for AWS security architecture, compliance (NIST 800-171/CMMC), and GovCloud IL5/IL6 deployments. Maintain SSP, POA&Ms, evidence, and remediation tracking; coordinate with auditors and customer ISSM/ISSO; partner with DevSecOps and Engineering to implement secure baselines, logging, monitoring, encryption, segmentation, vulnerability management, and incident response for regulated environments.

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Design and integrate aircraft electrical and avionics systems: power distribution, wire harness routing, connector selection, load analysis, and EMI/EMC mitigation. Create schematics, wiring diagrams, and ICDs, support flight test anomaly investigations, collaborate with structures/mechanical/systems teams, and contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.