Tooling Engineer

On behalf of our client, a fast-growing hypersonics company, we're hiring a Tooling Engineer with 3-5+ years of experience to design and develop large-scale, safety-critical tooling for solid rocket motor production. You will be responsible for figuring out how to safely move, handle, and process large quantities of energetic materials, designing fixtures, assemblies, and environmental systems that keep explosive precursor chemicals at the right temperature and in motion.

This is a high-stakes, hands-on role where your engineering fundamentals and ability to work at scale with dangerous materials will directly enable delivery of an early production run to a major government customer.

• Design and develop large-scale tooling (jigs, fixtures, molds, and handling assemblies) for safely moving and processing large-batch energetic precursor chemicals
• Engineer solutions for temperature control, material movement between buildings, and safe breakdown of explosive materials into smaller quantities for production casting
• Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, design, and production teams to architect tooling that meets aggressive cost, quality, and delivery targets for first-build production
• Lead tooling projects end-to-end from concept through production floor implementation, including FEA validation, tolerance stack-ups, and DFM principles
• Mentor junior tooling engineers and technicians while ensuring compliance with aerospace and defense industry standards

• 3-5+ years of experience in tooling engineering, ideally in aerospace, defense, or energetic materials manufacturing
• Strong background in designing jigs, fixtures, molds, and material handling systems at large scale
• Experience with FEA validation, tolerance stack-ups, and DFM principles
• Comfortable working around hazardous or energetic materials in a safety-critical environment
• Ability to lead projects end-to-end, from concept through production floor implementation
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or technicians
• Full-time
• Not open to visa sponsorship (US citizens and Green Card holders only)