Manufacturing Engineer - Composites

Helicon•Los Angeles, CA

19h

About The Position

Helicon is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer focused on composites to help industrialize composite manufacturing and enable advanced-material systems to be built at mass scale. The role combines customer collaboration, production tooling design, factory-floor process development, and work with software engineers to capture manufacturing constraints in Argos, Helicon’s operating system for supply chain, quoting, pricing, and simulation. The position emphasizes end-to-end ownership, high agency, and continuously advancing processes toward full automation. The role requires designing, building, and testing composite parts from scratch, along with experience in high-volume composites processes and hydraulic presses. Experience with automated manufacturing lines, machining, and 3D printing for tooling is preferred. Candidates must meet the stated U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements for ITAR-regulated technology.

Requirements

Have designed, built, and tested composite parts from scratch.
Have experience with high-volume composites processes and hydraulic presses.
Meet ITAR-related eligibility requirements: 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 required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automated manufacturing lines.
Experience with machining and 3D printing for tooling.

Responsibilities

Work with customers and complete design-for-manufacturability (DFM) work to make parts manufacturable at scale.
Design and own production tooling for composite parts.
Work on the factory floor to improve process capabilities and advance processes toward full automation.
Collaborate with software engineers to communicate real manufacturing constraints to Argos, Helicon’s OS for supply chain, quoting, pricing, and simulation.