# Composites and Airframe Build Lead at Astro Mechanica

- Company: Astro Mechanica
- What the company does: We're reinventing aircraft from the engine forward. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://astromecha.co/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $115K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astro-mechanica/fd7c76d8-0b42-480c-ba4c-d90ee10d23b3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astro-mechanica-composites-and-airframe-build-lead/

## About the role

Lead Astro Mechanica's composite technicians day to day on the floor, setting the standard for workmanship and holding the team to it Help build the team: interview candidates, onboard and train new technicians, develop a skills matrix, and grow people into harder work

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of hands-on composite fabrication in aerospace, defense, marine, motorsports, or another high-performance build environment, with at least 2 of those years directing the work of other technicians
- A track record of building a hands-on crew: interviewing, onboarding, training, setting the workmanship bar, and holding people to it
- Deep personal command of prepreg and wet layup, vacuum bagging, resin infusion, oven and autoclave cure, and secondary bonding
- Practical experience with core materials including honeycomb, foam, and syntactic, covering splicing, potting, and core-to-skin bond quality
- Strong trimming, drilling, sanding, fairing, and fitting skills, plus the judgment to tell when a surface or edge is genuinely good enough
- Experience joining composite detail parts into larger structure: bond prep, adhesive bonding, shimming, and fastener installation

Tags: Manufacturing