# Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering at Firestorm

- Company: Firestorm
- What the company does: Firestorm Labs - Democratize the fight with radically-affordable, mission-adaptable power for air, land, and sea. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.launchfirestorm.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/firestorm/am9icG9zdDrstFXAguTRHtv0DZQFj44J
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firestorm-senior-manager-mechanical-engineering/

## About the role

Firestorm is hiring a Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering to lead the mechanical engineering team responsible for the airframes, structures, mechanisms, and integration hardware that make up our sUAS platforms. You will own the technical direction, execution, and growth of a team that spans our main product lines, partnering with electrical engineering, propulsion, payloads, and manufacturing to deliver producible, qualified aircraft on aggressive timelines.

## What they're looking for

- Set the technical direction for mechanical engineering across Firestorm's aircraft platforms—structures, mechanisms, integration, packaging, and production hardware
- Own design standards, drawing standards, and engineering documentation practices, ensure consistency and quality across the team's output
- Drive change control discipline: lead the team's participation in CCB, ECR/ECO workflows, and configuration management across Arena PLM
- Lead and participate in design reviews (PDR, CDR, structural reviews, production readiness reviews), provide technical judgment on trade studies and architecture decisions
- Partner with manufacturing and quality on producibility, DFM/DFA, first-article inspection, and disposition of non-conformances
- Represent mechanical engineering in cross-functional IPTs, customer technical interchanges, and program reviews