BS in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field required
3+ years of hands-on experience with CAD design and complex assembly management
Expert in GD&T, design for manufacturing, and design for assembly
Strong knowledge of fabrication methodologies and quality control processes
Exceptional understanding of mechanical, structural dynamics, materials, and other engineering disciplines
Willingness to travel and adapt schedule for program milestones
Excellent communication and public speaking skills
Responsibilities
Own configuration management for vehicle, ensuring traceability of hardware, software, and test plans
Manage vehicle-level CAD integration and assembly drawings
Review and approve lower-level assembly drawings
Collaborate with subsystem design leads for accurate metadata
Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering for CAD integration with GSE designs
Oversee Mass Growth Allowance process and vehicle mass properties verification
Administer change review board, ensuring proper documentation and traceability
Drive release of CDR deliverables ahead of design freeze
Lead continual improvement initiatives for system design and manufacturing practices
Benefits
Generous health, dental, and vision plans with low deductibles
Parental leave
Educational reimbursement
Short-term disability
Flexible PTO options
Full Job Description
SUMMARY
As a Firefly System Configuration Engineer, you will be the key focal point for vehicle level configuration management of Firefly products. You will own top-level integrated CAD, and oversee all changes made to your assigned vehicle while owning milestone schedules. You will be responsible for maintaining configuration traceability across internal software suites. You will work with responsible design, manufacturing, and integration engineers, and dive deep into problems and processes across multiple engineering disciplines. It will be your job to translate programmatic change into actionable items and deliverables.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own configuration management for your vehicle, maintaining traceability between appropriate revisions of hardware assemblies, software, and test plans.
Own the vehicle-level CAD integration, assembly hierarchy and assembly drawings.
Serve as a reviewer and approver for all lower-level assembly drawings.
Work directly with subsystem design leads to ensure complete & accurate metadata (materials, etc).
Work with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure the CAD is integrated with GSE designs, and publish vehicle test configurations for test plan and procedure authoring.
Own the Mass Growth Allowance process throughout the vehicle lifecycle, as well as vehicle mass properties predictions and verification plans.
Administer the change review board, ensure all changes are properly documented before closure, and traceable to the appropriate configuration.
Drive the release of all CDR deliverables ahead of the design freeze for each vehicle.
Drive continual improvement to Firefly system design and manufacturing policies and practices, leading lessons learned, providing to and implementing feedback from design engineering teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
BS in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline required
3+ years of focused hands-on experience with CAD design and complex assembly management, equivalent mechanical work will be considered.
Expert in GD&T, design for manufacturing, and design for assembly.
Strong working knowledge of fabrication and assembly methodologies, production management tools, and quality control processes.
Exceptional comprehension of first principles in the following engineering disciplines; mechanical, structural dynamics, materials, electrical, mechatronics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, orbital mechanics, controls, and propulsion.
Amenable to travel and schedule flexibility leading up to program milestone
Good communication with all position levels within the company
Exceptional public speaking and presentation skills
Desired
MS in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical field
Experience scripting languages and process automation
Experienced on Agile Project Management using Atlassian tools (JIRA, confluence, bitbucket)
Strong working knowledge of ASME, MIL, ASTM, and/or NASA Standards, as well as Systems Engineering best practices - able to adapt processes to meet the needs of the team
Experience tailoring the SMC, AFSPCM equivalent range documents
Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must 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 the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About Firefly Space Systems
Firefly Space Systems was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Cedar Park, Texas. The company was founded in 2013 with the goal of developing low-cost launch vehicles for the small satellite industry. Firefly's Alpha rocket was designed to carry payloads of up to 1,000 kg to low Earth orbit. The company was acquired by EOS Launcher in 2017 and is now known as Firefly Aerospace. Firefly Aerospace is continuing the development of the Alpha rocket and is also working on a larger rocket called Beta, which is designed to carry payloads of up to 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit. Firefly Aerospace is committed to providing affordable access to space for small satellite operators.
