About this role
About the Role Stratolaunch is seeking a Harness Engineer at Level II, Senior, or Staff to support the development and improvement of air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle avionics systems and units for manufacturability, assembly, and test. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to generate requirements, design, analyze, manufacture, test, and integrate avionics systems for flight readiness. What You'll Do
- Contribute to and work with a diverse team of mechanical, avionics, and manufacturing engineers
- Perform and/or support requirements development or maturation for wire harnesses
- Wire harness architecture, layout, and design
- Create production drawings and work with machine shops and production teams to ensure designs are manufacturable
- Coordinate procurement internally and externally with suppliers
- Develop harness specifications and test procedures
- Support and oversee harness installation and functional testing
- Support manufacturing technicians with troubleshooting
- Support test planning, perform failure analysis, and support hardware and software qualification and flight testing
- Develop and optimize packaging processes to improve yield and reliability, setting process monitors and pass/fail metrics
- Prepare content for, and present at, design and test readiness reviews
- Regular and comprehensive communication to program Avionics, Structures, and Manufacturing Leads, as appropriate
- Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments What We're Looking For
- Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines (in order of priority): wire harness design, mechanical design, avionics manufacturing, mechanical manufacturing, and/or aircraft systems
- Significant experience with electronics/avionics harness design and construction
- Hands-on fabrication experience in an aerospace environment
- Experience transitioning prototype programs into LRIP
- Ability to read and interpret wire schematics drawings
- Experience with technical aerospace work, including working with vendors
- Experience with risk management and critical path workflow
- Experience working in small engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within business goals
- Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- 3D CAD experience (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred, SolidWorks)
- MS Office/365 Suite
- Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc. Nice to Have
- Design for Manufacturability & Assembly (DFMA) improvement experience
- Material Review Board (MRB) experience
- Reading, writing, interpreting, and/or redlining work orders
- Troubleshooting experience
- Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) experience
- Hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
- Air-launched vehicle development
- Composite structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
- Active security clearance preferred.
- Capital Software Suite or equivalent (Zuken, Altium, Rapid Harness) for preferred computer skills Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $101,000 - $206,000 USD per year
- Benefits: 9/80 schedule; healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs); paid maternity and parental leave; 50% 401(k) match up to $11,500; tuition reimbursement
- Travel: