Manager Structures Engineer

Manager, Structures Engineering (Aerospace & Defense) will build and mentor a team of engineers to build cutting edge vehicles and products. This position requires:
Hands on mentorship and team building to foster accountability and ownership at the product level, and capability to give deep technical guidance for the growing team. Collaborating successfully with peer leaders to realize positive outcomes across teams. Accountability to the executive team to set and deliver outcomes for the business.

• Set team priorities, track projects, and mentor engineers to achieve critical company milestones.
• Develop and institutionalize a culture of accountability, extreme ownership, collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Perform cross-functional technical review to ensure product capabilities meet requirements.
• Identify and communicate capability gaps, risks, and dependencies between application and platform teams, and coordinate mitigation plans.
• Growing the capabilities of the team, through training, mentorship, documentation and hiring
• Appropriate resource allocation, measuring capacity of the team against capacity
• Accountable for generating and measuring functional departmental goals, KPIs and responsibilities.

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor’s degree in , Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in a relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in technical leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team of mechanical engineers working cross functionally to deliver successful products
• Proven track record of leading complex projects from concept through production, focusing on high-performance materials and high-reliability applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex, inputs to simple terms and find alignment across multifunctional stake holders.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset—comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving structured clarity across technology and program boundaries.

• Demonstrated excellence developing products and systems for aerospace and defense applications.
• Experience with additive manufacturing, automation systems, or materials development.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a high-tech, fast-paced startup environment with a passion for disrupting traditional manufacturing paradigms.

If this role is of interest to you, please apply with your current resume. We will reach out to schedule an initial conversation.