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Systems Configuration Engineer II

Firefly Aerospace · Cedar Park, TX · On-site

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About Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace engages in providing economical and convenient access to space for small payloads through the design, manufacture, and operation of reliable launch vehicles. Backed by Space Capital.

About the role

As a Firefly System Configuration Engineer, you will be the key focal point for vehicle level configuration management of Firefly products. You will own top-level integrated CAD, and oversee all changes made to your assigned vehicle while owning milestone schedules. You will be responsible for maintaining configuration traceability across internal software suites. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Own configuration management for your vehicle, maintaining traceability between appropriate revisions of hardware assemblies, software, and test plans
  • Own the vehicle-level CAD integration, assembly hierarchy and assembly drawings
  • Serve as a reviewer and approver for all lower-level assembly drawings
  • Work directly with subsystem design leads to ensure complete & accurate metadata (materials, etc)
  • Work with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure the CAD is integrated with GSE designs, and publish vehicle test configurations for test plan and procedure authoring
  • Own the Mass Growth Allowance process throughout the vehicle lifecycle, as well as vehicle mass properties predictions and verification plans
More about this role

SUMMARY

As a Firefly System Configuration Engineer, you will be the key focal point for vehicle level configuration management of Firefly products. You will own top-level integrated CAD, and oversee all changes made to your assigned vehicle while owning milestone schedules. You will be responsible for maintaining configuration traceability across internal software suites. You will work with responsible design, manufacturing, and integration engineers, and dive deep into problems and processes across multiple engineering disciplines. It will be your job to translate programmatic change into actionable items and deliverables.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own configuration management for your vehicle, maintaining traceability between appropriate revisions of hardware assemblies, software, and test plans.
  • Own the vehicle-level CAD integration, assembly hierarchy and assembly drawings.
  • Serve as a reviewer and approver for all lower-level assembly drawings.
  • Work directly with subsystem design leads to ensure complete & accurate metadata (materials, etc).
  • Work with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure the CAD is integrated with GSE designs, and publish vehicle test configurations for test...

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