Furientis

Manufacturing Engineer, Solid Rocket Motors

Los Angeles, CA · Mid · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago

Supply ChainLogisticsCadenceRoboticsOSHA

About the role

You will report to the Head of Propulsion.
When a decision needs to be made, bring real process options, tooling concepts, and the cost analysis to back them up, then move quickly.

Capture the current 6-inch build process (already flying motors) into travelers, work instructions, and control plans.
Lay out the Mojave build line. Safety first, throughput second.
Design and procure the tooling and fixtures for both motor sizes.
Build the inspection plan. Perform NDE on early articles
transition routine NDE to an external Level III provider as build rate scales.
Run the energetic-materials build line: handle the propellant ingredient set, the energetic and hazardous precursor chemistry, and the mix-and-cure operations safely day to day. The Energetic Materials Engineer owns formulation and characterization
you own the line that builds with it. The safety culture on the line is yours to set and defend.
Build and own the technical side of the motor-hardware supplier base. The Head of Supply Chain owns commercial terms. Feed DFM lessons back into the development engineer's design package.
Build and own the technical side of the motor-hardware supplier base.
The Head of Supply Chain owns commercial terms.

Familiarity with insensitive munitions (IM) protocols.
A clearance is not required for this position.
Must be a U.S. Person.
Hands-on LEAN, 5S, and value-stream mapping with cost or throughput outcomes you can defend with numbers.

B.S. in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering.
5+ years hands-on manufacturing engineering on solid rocket motors or analogous hazardous-process manufacturing.
Hands-on inspection and NDE experience.
Hands-on safety record working with energetic and hazardous materials.
Track record of taking a hand-built first article to a repeatable production article without losing performance margin.
AI-native working
Direct solids build-floor experience.
Compliance experience for energetic operations (ATF, EPA, OSHA PSM, local AHJ).

America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year.
Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles.
We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.

The Propulsion Team designs, builds, and flies the solid rocket motors that power our interceptor.
We own the chemistry, the motor and grain design, the ground test campaigns, and the range operations.

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