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Torrance, California, United States
Onsite
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Torrance, CA or Rio Rancho, NM | $140,000 to $230,000 base + equity
Our client is a fast-growing, well-backed defense manufacturing startup building advanced propulsion and weapon systems. They apply a commercial, high-speed approach to hardware: short iterative design cycles, early and frequent real-world testing, and modern manufacturing methods, in a domain that has historically moved slowly. The team is small, fast, and execution-focused.
They are hiring a Senior Tooling Engineer to own the tooling that makes their hardware manufacturable at rate.
You will design and build tooling assemblies (jigs, fixtures, molds, dies, and assembly tooling) for aerospace and missile-class components. A key near-term challenge is scaling solid rocket motor propellant manufacturing: energetic material handled at production scale, in large batches with strict thermal and handling constraints. The tooling has to hit cost and throughput targets without compromising the safety and process requirements that energetic materials demand.