Industrial Engineer
Castelion
Industrial Engineer
Castelion
Designs and manufactures hypersonic strike weapons
Why Castelion, Why Now
Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability.
This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function.
Industrial Engineer, Avionics
Castelion is seeking a highly skilled Industrial Engineer to design and scale the manufacturing systems behind our avionics hardware, including PCBAs, wire harnesses, electrical integration, and test. You will own the systems-level view of production: modeling capacity, balancing operations, optimizing material flow, defining standard work, and building the metrics that tell us how the factory is performing. This role sits at the intersection of manufacturing engineering and program execution, translating production data into decisions about equipment, staffing, tooling, and factory layout that enable us to scale from development builds to high-rate production.
Responsibilities
Model production capacity and takt time across PCBA, harness, electrical integration, and test operations to inform staffing, equipment, and layout decisions • Develop process flows, value stream maps, and factory layouts to optimize material flow and production efficiency • Conduct time studies and line balancing analyses to establish standard work and identify bottlenecks • Partner with design and manufacturing engineering to provide DFM/DFA feedback for production at scale • Develop and maintain OEE, throughput, cycle time, utilization, and yield metrics to drive manufacturing improvements • Perform capacity studies and define labor, equipment, tooling, and floor-space requirements • Develop material flow, kitting, and lineside inventory strategies to reduce non value-added work • Support make/buy and automation decisions using capacity, labor, and cost models • Work cross-functionally with design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program teams to meet production rate, schedule, and cost objective.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or a related engineering field • 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or production environment performing capacity, process flow, or production analysis
Preferred Skills and Experience Experience with electronics, avionics, PCBA, wire harness, electromechanical, or aerospace manufacturing • Experience with capacity modeling, line balancing, factory layouts, OEE, takt time, and production planning • Experience scaling manufacturing processes from development into higher-volume production
Castelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Additional Eligibility Requirements
This position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply.
Affirmative Action/EEO Statement
Castelion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Castelion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in the interview process, or otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [email protected]. Requests for accommodation will be considered on an individual basis and handled in accordance with applicable law.
Castelion is committed to fostering a workplace where employment decisions are based on qualifications, business needs, and the ability to perform the essential functions of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation.
EAR/ITAR Requirements
This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Castelion designs, tests, and manufactures hypersonic strike weapons for the U.S. military, aiming to deter future wars with fast, credible, non-nuclear deterrence. Its flagship Blackbeard is a low-cost, mass-producible hypersonic missile compatible with HIMARS/MLRS, built in-house with solid rocket motors, propellant, and a real-time, hardware-isolated flight computer. The company uses vertical integration and a rapid test-and-iterate cycle, with frequent flight tests and Project Ranger, a 1,000-acre facility in New Mexico to scale production. It competes with traditional defense primes on speed and cost, selling under government contracts and development awards to field advanced weapons at scale.
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