Astromecha

Astromecha

Director of Manufacturing

San Francisco · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 293 days ago
Supply ChainSystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationAdaptability

About the role

  • We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
  • We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.
  • WHO YOU ARE: You are a builder at heart-someone who thrives at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, prototyping, and leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own manufacturing strategy across the vehicle, ensuring alignment between design intent, manufacturability, cost, and schedule from early concepts through flight hardware.
  • Partner closely with airframe, propulsion, and systems engineering to drive build-aware design decisions, providing clear pushback when proposed solutions create unnecessary complexity, risk, or cost.
  • Maintain high-level technical fluency across precision machining, fabrication, and propulsion assembly, as well as composites, bonded structures, and airframe integration, enabling informed trade studies and execution decisions.
  • Drive cross-functional planning and execution, aligning engineering, test, supply chain, and leadership around build readiness and resource allocation.
  • Build and lead a multidisciplinary manufacturing team, setting a high bar for technical excellence, ownership, and accountability.
  • Develop lightweight but robust processes for quality, traceability, and configuration control that support rapid iteration without slowing progress.
  • Serve as the company's technical authority on build strategy, ensuring Astro Mechanica stays ahead in manufacturing capabilities as we evolve our propulsion systems and aircraft.

Requirements

  • You are a builder at heart-someone who thrives at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, prototyping, and leadership.
  • 10+ years of experience in aerospace or similarly complex hardware-driven environments, spanning manufacturing, engineering, or technical leadership roles.
  • High-level knowledge of both:
  • Experience owning or heavily influencing cost and schedule across programs, not just within a single functional silo.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to align engineers, operators, and leadership around shared priorities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan
  • Self-managed and flexible time-off policy, including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time
  • Flexible work environment

Company info

  • Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
  • Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
  • In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
  • We're a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace. We're generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well. We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.
  • You are a builder at heart-someone who thrives at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, prototyping, and leadership. You've spent years working in high-mix, low-volume environments, where speed, precision, and adaptability are equally critical. You are hands-on with machines and tools, but equally skilled at building teams, processes, and shops that scale. You get energy from solving hard problems, bringing order to complexity, and enabling others to do their best work. You're motivated by the idea of building something that has never been built before, and you're excited to help shape the future of aerospace from the ground up.
  • You may have started your career as a design or structures engineer, or grown into manufacturing leadership through hands-on technical work-but either way, you are fluent in both worlds. You are comfortable engaging deeply with engineering while grounding decisions in what it actually takes to build, test, and iterate hardware.
  • To achieve this, we are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies-which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system-with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.
  • We're a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
  • We're generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
  • You've spent years working in high-mix, low-volume environments, where speed, precision, and adaptability are equally critical.
  • You are hands-on with machines and tools, but equally skilled at building teams, processes, and shops that scale.

Equal opportunity

  • Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer.
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