Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refueling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C)is responsible fordeveloping flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industrys leading signals intelligence electronic warfare and cyber in signal classification direction finding advanced geolocation techniques and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD develops special purpose radios for government customers andlicensesDF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Reporting to the SHADOWLAB Senior Principal Systems Engineer Electromagnetics and Cyber Group (EM&C) and supporting Metreas overall engineering efforts the Principal Manufacturing Engineer will join our busy team specializing in state-of-the-art military communications and signals intelligence products. All our teams operate in a small agile environment which allows our engineering personnel to work independently on a wide variety of systems and products. Our mix of product development and R&D also provides our engineering staff with a constant flow of new and interesting projects.

• Develop review and maintain mechanical designs drawings assemblies and manufacturing documentation to support prototype and production builds.
• Create and improve manufacturing processes assembly instructions work instructions tooling fixtures and test support equipment.
• Support design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly reviews to improve producibility reduce costs and increase product reliability.
• Work with cross-functional teams including electrical software quality supply chain and production personnel to resolve design and manufacturing issues.
• Investigate nonconformances production defects supplier issues and test failures then support corrective actions and process improvements.
• Support transition of products from engineering development into production including BOM reviews material readiness build planning and production troubleshooting.

• Bachelors Degree in either Mechanical Electrical Materials Civil or Industrial Engineering.
• 10-15 years of experience with mechanical design CAD modeling engineering drawings GD&T tolerance analysis and product documentation.
• 10-15 years of experience with manufacturing processes assembly methods tooling fixtures materials and design-for-manufacturing / design-for-assembly principles.
• 10-15 years of experience working in a cross-functional engineering environment with strong problem-solving documentation communication and root-cause analysis skills.

• Comprehensive medical plan options
• HSA/FSA accounts
• Dental and vision coverage
• 6% employer 401(k) match
• Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Generous PTO
• Life and disability insurance
• Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
• AD&D Coverage
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub

Employee must be a US citizen.

Metrea Algorithmics (MAX) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

This is a full-time position with typical working hours Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This job operates in a clerical office and laboratory setting.

Up to 10% travel is expected for this role.