Staff Manufacturing Engineer (DFM)

Join Radiant, a cutting-edge company focused on revolutionizing energy production. As a Staff Manufacturing Engineer, you will play a crucial role in transitioning our innovative Kaleidos reactor from a prototype to a scalable production system. You will work closely with various engineering teams, own manufacturing processes for critical reactor components, and drive design for manufacturability and assembly. This hands-on engineering role offers significant influence over the evolution of our product and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the energy industry.

Assumer la responsabilité des processus de fabrication pour les composants critiques du réacteur, en veillant à ce que les conceptions puissent être construites en toute sécurité, de manière fiable et répétée.

Collaborer étroitement avec les ingénieurs en conception pour influencer le matériel dès les premières étapes de la conception, en intégrant les principes de conception pour la fabrication et l'assemblage.

Must work 100% onsite at Radiant’s El Segundo headquarters

Responsibilities

• Développer, qualifier, documenter et améliorer continuellement les processus de fabrication pour des matériels mécaniques complexes et des assemblages intégrés.
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution
• Demonstrated experience partnering with design engineering to influence hardware through DFM/DFA
• Experience troubleshooting manufacturing and assembly problems, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions
• Strong ability to interpret engineering drawings, CAD models, specifications, and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience developing manufacturing documentation such as work instructions, process specifications, routings, and inspection plans
• Strong understanding of mechanical fabrication and assembly processes, including machining, joining, fastening, alignment, tolerance control, and inspection
• Demonstrated ability to make practical engineering tradeoffs across manufacturability, quality, cost, schedule, performance, and risk
• Experience working directly with technicians, machinists, fabricators, inspectors, and operators in a hands-on manufacturing environment

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience manufacturing complex mechanical hardware in a production, development, or high-reliability engineering environment
• Experience owning manufacturing processes from development through qualification and production implementation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across design, quality, test, supply chain, and operations teams
• Must be willing to support extended hours and weekends when necessary to meet critical program milestones
• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Experience transitioning complex hardware from prototype or development builds into repeatable or scaled production
• Experience with precision machining, mechanical joining, dimensional inspection, and non-destructive evaluation methods
• Experience designing custom fixtures, tooling, assembly equipment, or other production hardware
• Experience with tolerance analysis and manufacturing or assembly strategies for tightly controlled interfaces

Preferred

• Experience manufacturing highly engineered hardware in aerospace, energy, nuclear, automotive, defense, turbomachinery, or another high-reliability industry
• Experience with process qualification, first article inspection, statistical process control, or production quality systems
• Experience developing suppliers for low-volume, high-complexity hardware
• Experience with manufacturing automation, production equipment, or semi-automated assembly systems

Pay

• Demonstrated ability to reduce part count, mass, assembly time, production complexity, or manufacturing cost without compromising product performance
• USD 160,000 - 210,000