Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Supports system-level safety engineering for the X-BAT aircraft platform by deriving and validating safety requirements, conducting hazard analyses, maintaining hazard tracking systems, developing certification evidence, and verifying mitigations. Collaborates with systems engineering, cybersecurity, airworthiness, responsible engineers, and DoD representatives on safety documentation, design reviews, risk assessments, mishap investigations, and readiness reviews.

Design complex PCB layouts for aircraft hardware, including digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics. Manage stack-ups, routing constraints, component placement, signal and power integrity, impedance control, thermal and EMI mitigation, and mechanical integration. Generate manufacturing documentation and collaborate with electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and fabrication teams to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance.

Leads manufacturing engineering for aerospace propulsion and fluid-system hardware from development through production. Responsibilities include process and tooling development, engine and fuel/oil system integration, DFM/DFA reviews, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, work instructions, inspection methods, supplier qualification, process validation, production readiness, system troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. Collaborates across design, production, quality, supply chain, and test teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Lead Shield AI’s digital factory and AI-enabled manufacturing roadmap. Deploy and improve MES, integrate ERP, PLM, QMS, automation, equipment, and connected factory infrastructure, and establish the digital thread across engineering, production, quality, maintenance, and supply chain. Identify and implement AI, predictive maintenance, machine vision, digital twin, analytics, and automation solutions while leading complex cross-functional factory transformation initiatives.

Leads manufacturing integration and production readiness for aerospace and defense platforms. Develops final assembly processes, coordinates system-level builds, drives DFM/DFA reviews, resolves integration issues through root cause analysis, defines work instructions and quality standards, supports product transitions into manufacturing, and collaborates across design, production, quality, supply chain, and test engineering. Mentors junior engineers and improves reliability, producibility, and production scalability.

Leads manufacturing engineering for advanced electrical and avionics systems from prototype through full-rate production. Develops processes, tooling, work instructions, inspection methods, and production controls; drives DFM/DFA, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, supplier qualification, process validation, and production readiness. Partners with design, quality, supply chain, test, and production teams to improve manufacturability, reliability, and testability while mentoring junior engineers.

Lead manufacturing engineering for advanced ground vehicle and mobility systems, including chassis, suspension, braking, hydraulics, pneumatics, driveline, and structural assemblies. Develop processes, tooling, work instructions, quality standards, and production controls. Support vehicle integration, testing, supplier qualification, process validation, prototype-to-production transitions, root cause investigations, and corrective actions. Partner with design, quality, supply chain, production, and test teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Leads manufacturing engineering for electromechanical aerospace and defense assemblies, including actuators, motors, hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, and motion-control systems. Develops processes, tooling, work instructions, inspection methods, and production controls; leads DFM/DFA, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, supplier qualification, process validation, and production readiness. Partners across design, quality, supply chain, production, and test engineering to improve manufacturability, reliability, and integration, while mentoring junior engineers.

Lead advanced manufacturing engineering across multiple defense programs, including production-line infrastructure, manufacturing sequences, tooling, workstations, work instructions, process controls, time studies, and lean improvements. Partner with quality, supply chain, production, and engineering to implement ECOs, resolve defects, improve throughput, and establish scalable production systems. Mentor engineers and support prototype manufacturing for next-generation aircraft.

Design and manage production tooling for complex aerospace systems from concept through fabrication and prove-out. Responsibilities include designing fixtures, molds, gauges, carts, and protective tooling; conducting FEA and calculations; creating detailed tool packages; leading cross-functional reviews; managing fabrication and issue resolution; developing setup, maintenance, and inspection documentation; and supporting first article dimensional validation.

Lead manufacturing engineering across multiple defense and aerospace programs, optimizing processes for throughput, quality, and cost. Launch a new jet production line by selecting and deploying equipment, tooling, automation, and hardware/software systems. Partner with engineering, supply chain, vendors, and production teams, while mentoring engineers and standardizing manufacturing improvements at scale.

Leads advanced manufacturing engineering across multiple defense programs, defining manufacturing processes, bills of process, tooling, workstations, work instructions, and production controls. Builds infrastructure for a next-generation jet production line, selects equipment, improves throughput, conducts time studies, and drives lean, quality, root-cause, corrective-action, and ECO initiatives. Partners with engineering, supply chain, quality, and production while mentoring engineers and scaling prototype manufacturing operations.

Lead the lifecycle of production equipment, test racks, and test cells from readiness through sustainment. Troubleshoot failures and test anomalies, improve reliability and throughput, maintain technical documentation, execute acceptance testing and validation, manage upgrades and obsolescence, and support capacity expansion. Collaborate with Manufacturing, Test, Quality, and Design Engineering teams, manage vendors and integrators, and mentor engineers and technicians.

Lead composite manufacturing engineering across multiple programs, optimizing processes for throughput, quality, and cost. Launch a new jet production line, define composite part producibility, deploy equipment, tooling, automation, and production software, integrate vendors, standardize manufacturing systems, and mentor engineers and production personnel. The role requires strong expertise in composite machining, lamination, assembly, CAD, process improvement, and factory-scale execution in a rapid-growth environment.

Lead the design, optimization, and launch of advanced aerospace manufacturing systems and greenfield facilities. Responsibilities include factory layouts, production line design, material flow, capacity planning, line balancing, simulation, labor analysis, lean manufacturing, equipment installation, commissioning, and production readiness. The role partners cross-functionally to develop scalable factories, improve throughput and quality, establish manufacturing standards, and support production ramps, NPI, and future factory expansion.

Lead quality initiatives across aerospace product lifecycles from design and NPI through production. Develop AS9100-aligned quality systems, conduct root cause investigations, implement corrective and preventive actions, establish control plans and inspection strategies, and apply statistical process control to improve manufacturing performance. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers, support production scaling, influence cross-functional decisions, and mentor quality team members.

Lead technical direction and architecture for full-stack receiver financial products across web, mobile, backend services, APIs, and integrations. Design scalable distributed and event-driven systems, deliver greenfield customer experiences, integrate money-movement and compliance platforms, and embed security, reliability, observability, and regulatory controls. Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and influence technical strategy across teams while using AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Conducts environmental reliability testing on electronic flight hardware, including thermal, humidity, vibration, shock, HALT, and HASS testing. Develops test plans, fixtures, procedures, instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and reports. Operates and improves the environmental test lab, investigates failures, manages equipment and consumables, coordinates external laboratories, and advises stakeholders on test and design-for-reliability practices.

Design and develop mechanical and actuated systems for autonomous UAVs, owning concept-to-production CAD, kinematic and structural analysis, FEA, prototyping, testing, and cross-functional integration to meet performance, schedule, and reliability goals.

Design, implement, verify, and debug FPGA-based communication modules for UAV avionics. Perform synthesis, timing closure, bitstream generation, and hardware bring-up. Integrate FPGAs with system architecture, optimize for latency/reliability, collaborate across hardware/firmware/software teams, participate in design reviews, and maintain documentation.

Lead design and execution of mechanical and structural test plans, build and operate hydraulic test fixtures, integrate and calibrate sensors, automate data collection and analysis with Python, produce technical reports, perform CAD design and collaborate across engineering teams to validate hardware performance.

Lead design, development, and testing of a deployable launch and recovery system for a next-generation UAS. Create CAD models and manufacturing drawings, perform structural, thermal, and fatigue analyses, oversee prototyping and validation, integrate launcher with aircraft systems, and support flight test campaigns and supplier production for field-deployable military operations.

Lead integration, validation, and fielding of advanced weapon capabilities on X-Bat across the full lifecycle. Define system behaviors and architectures, coordinate cross-functional integration, support lab/ground/flight tests, perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to reduce integration risk and accelerate capability delivery.

Design, build, and deploy multidisciplinary electrical and software test systems for UAV components. Architect test framework software, automate provisioning, develop monitoring/visualization, lead design reviews, and mentor junior engineers to ensure high-reliability aerospace testing.

Lead design and integration of secure, low-latency communication systems for autonomous aircraft, including RF, SATCOM, SDR, and tactical data links. Define system requirements, optimize encrypted data links, enable connectivity between airborne, ground, and satellite systems, develop AI-driven sensor fusion, validate performance via simulation and flight testing, and ensure DoD compliance and mission readiness.