Manufacturing Engineer (Raptor Turbomachinery Machining)
Hawthorne · 1+ years experience · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Hawthorne
About the role
- As a Manufacturing Engineer for Raptor machining, you will have the opportunity to influence, scale, and solve challenging problems relating to the production of Raptor machined piece parts and processing.
- The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment with ever-changing scope and focus areas.
- This individual understands how to best design for manufacturing and will conceptualize/implement full-scale production processes for machining our critical hardware within production rate and cost goals.
Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, and implement machining processes to help solve for engine cost, quality, and production rate – specifically focused on valve, turbopump, thrust chamber or injector hardware.
- Work between manufacturing and design engineers, machinists, technicians, and quality to ensure processes are robust and any production problems are quickly solved.
- Partner with design to identify and implement design for manufacturing (DFM) updates at both the piece part and system level, own change management into production.
- Aggressively implement machining process controls that allow parts to run ‘lights out’. Leverage latest technologies and programming strategies to reduce in-cycle intervention.
- Be responsible for part or part family quality; understand quality landscape, and drive projects to ensure dimensions meet part requirements with low overhead.
- Drive machining processes toward statistically controlled (SPC) environment. Develop and implement tools needed to show capability.
- Oversee full circle machining process from fixture design and manufacturing, CAM programming and program refinement, cutting tool selection, and buyoff/inspection methodologies.
- Constantly challenge each process, part, operation to create the most manufacturable and reliable engine hardware possible.
- Work with production to ensure the hardware you are responsible for is delivered on time or ahead of schedule.
- Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and products revisions, frequently multiple at a given time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or physics.
- 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment (student project team and internship experience qualifies).
Preferred qualifications
- Strong experience with machining concepts, problems and producing hardware.
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, problem-solving environment.
- Experience in design or product development engineering role.
- Master's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering.
- Ability to work on multiple projects and initiatives in parallel.
- Mechanical component and/or tooling design and analysis (3D computer-aided design).
- Experience with process development from R&D to volume manufacturing.
- Experience writing work instructions and procedures for critical aerospace parts.
Benefits
- long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
- discretionary bonuses
- ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- short and long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- Position may require occasional travel, long hours or weekend work.
Skills
- CAM Programming
- 3D Computer-aided Design
