Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors
CHAOS Industries - Hawthorne, California, United States
Posted Feb 23, 2026
Benefits
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $111,944 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +13.7% - Much faster than average
21% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors Hawthorne, California, United States CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage-domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com . Role Summary: We are seeking a Manufacturing Engineer focused on Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA), producibility engineering, and transition-to-production execution for low-cost interceptor systems. This role will partner directly with Product Engineering from early concept development through full-rate production, ensuring interceptor designs are: - Producible at scale - Cost-optimized for high-rate builds - Robust to supply chain variability - Architected for automated and semi-automated assembly You will serve as the manufacturing authority embedded within the development lifecycle - driving design trades, quantifying cost impacts, maturing production processes, and enabling rapid ramp to rate production. Responsibilities: - Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA) - Lead structured DFMA reviews during concept, PDR, CDR, and pre-production phases. - Quantify cost, cycle time, yield, and tooling impacts of design decisions. - Drive simplification of part counts, fastener strategy, interfaces, tolerances, and assembly flow. - Evaluate tolerance stack-ups
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