The Manufacturing Engineer plays a critical role in optimizing production processes, improving manufacturing efficiency, and ensuring product quality within a manufacturing facility.
Compensation
Payrate: $36.46 - $36.46/hr
Responsibilities
Develop and optimize manufacturing processes, procedures, and workflows to improve productivity, reduce cycle times, and enhance product quality, utilizing lean manufacturing principles, Six Sigma methodologies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Design and implement new manufacturing systems, equipment, and tools, including automation and robotics solutions, to streamline production operations, increase throughput, and reduce labor costs, while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
Conduct time and motion studies, process simulations, and capacity analyses to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement in production lines, workstations, and assembly processes, and propose solutions to address identified issues.
Collaborate with cross functional teams, including production, engineering, quality assurance, and supply chain, to support new product introductions (NPI), prototype development, and manufacturing scaleups, and ensure smooth transition from design to production.
Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance to production teams, maintenance technicians, and operators to resolve equipment malfunctions, process deviations, and quality issues, and implement corrective actions and preventive measures to prevent recurrence.
Senior technical leader advancing next‑generation high‑power laser‑based countermeasure systems, optical communication terminals, adaptive optics, and RF‑over‑fiber photonic solutions used in missile defense, airborne systems, and next‑generation countermeasure payloads.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is 172,900 USD - 328,700 USD.
Responsibilities
Serve as the senior technical authority for laser, photonic, and RF photonic systems across multiple programs and divisions within Raytheon.
Architect integrated optical/RF systems incorporating high‑power fiber lasers, doped fiber amplifiers, EDFA/ROADM subsystems, free‑space optical terminals, and RF‑over‑fiber photonic links.
Lead end‑to‑end system engineering including optical & RF link budgets, atmospheric propagation modeling, laser/optical power chain analysis, high‑speed modulation and RF photonics signal transport, optical modem waveform development and optimization.
Direct the development of embedded control algorithms for real‑time optical and RF photonic subsystems.
Design and develop critical fluid subsystems and components for the company’s core technology, the Node, ensuring performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
Compensation
Cash compensation of $155,000 – $205,000.
Responsibilities
Own the design and development of critical fluid subsystems and components across all phases (concept through deployment)
Perform detailed design and analysis, including material selection, sizing, and system integration
Collaborate with staff and senior engineers to refine system architecture and integration strategies
Participate in design reviews and contribute to technical decision-making
Work closely with internal teams and external vendors to ensure high-quality fabrication and assembly
Requirements
Degree in mechanical engineering
Degree in aerospace engineering
Degree in naval architecture
Degree in marine engineering
Nice to have: Advanced degree in a relevant engineering field
Lead the development and implementation of material flow strategies that improve the efficiency of material delivery and support factory goals in operational and manufacturing excellence
Provide project management leadership for critical material flow projects including integration of new technology solutions, material now process improvements, and fork truck fleet strategies
Collaborate and coordinate with key stakeholders across the factory on analysis, development, and execution of these solutions
Develop, execute, own, and audit material replenishment methodologies, strategies, and guidelines
Manage and coordinate plans for every part and storage solutions including optimization of total replenishment cost and storage capacities
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or equivalent technical related work experience
Nice to have: project management experience
Nice to have: financial models for capital projects
Nice to have: knowledge of material flow processes
Lead the development, validation, and maintenance of vehicle models and simulation environments for autonomous aircraft and defense platforms.
Compensation
$180,000—$210,000 USD
Responsibilities
Own simulation design and technical ownership
Translate GNC and vehicle questions into simulation requirements
Implement equations of motion and numerical integration in C/C++ or Rust with MATLAB/Simulink
Define simulation architecture and model interfaces
Document assumptions and validation evidence
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related technical field
Nice to have: Master's degree
Nice to have: autonomous fixed-wing aircraft simulation
company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits; life insurance; certain time off and leave of absence; well-being benefits
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