Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Integration & Test

Karman Industries

Karman Industries is a Torrance-based thermal technology company building the backbone for giga-scale AI infrastructure. Founded by a team from SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and GE, Karman is moving beyond legacy cooling with the launch of the HPU (Heat Processing Unit)—a new category of thermal architecture designed for the 100kW+ rack era.

The HPU shrinks the exterior mechanical yard by up to 80% while reducing peak energy consumption by 10%+. Unlike traditional systems, the Karman HPU provides zero-water (WUE 0) cooling that ensures high-TDP GPUs and HBM4 memory stay at optimal thermal setpoints without throttling.

Founded in 2024, we’re a fast-growing team of passionate professionals dedicated to making a tangible impact on the future of humanity. We design, build, and test real hardware, and we lead with ownership: you’ll own your work from concept to hardware and help shape how we scale. Our values are Ownership, Performance Excellence, Radical Transparency, and Customer-Centricity.

Join us in our mission to transform the industry and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Integration & Test

We are seeking a skilled and hands-on Manufacturing Engineer to lead the manufacturing and assembly of cutting-edge turbomachinery that will be utilized to build Thermal01. This role is critical to establishing robust manufacturing capabilities, including equipment layout, process development, vendor selection, tooling selection, and workflow designs. We are a team that values first-principles thinking, hands-on problem solving, and close cross-functional collaboration to deliver cohesive, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own manufacturing readiness for assigned product lines, developing scalable assembly processes, resolving production challenges, and supporting capacity expansion initiatives

• Own a major integrated subsystem, contributing directly to build development while guiding team execution from design release through production

• Coordinate cross-functional efforts across design, supply chain, and production to execute the build process: covering planning, sourcing strategy, sequencing, mBOM development, tooling, equipment and work order creation

• Author work instructions and technical procedures spanning mechanical, electrical, and fluid/pneumatic systems

• Guide workcenter development with a strategic focus on long-term goals, safety, capital investment, and tooling as the facility scales

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to resolve manufacturing challenges, lead root cause analysis, and implement sustainable, efficiency-driven solutions

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant work experience and B.S. degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing engineering or related technical field

• Extensive experience authoring work instructions, mBOMs, and technical procedures for interdisciplinary assemblies involving mechanical, electrical, and fluid/pneumatic systems

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with design, manufacturing, production, and quality teams to execute and optimize build processes

• Strong understanding of integrated assembly processes across mechanical, electrical, and fluid systems

• Experience executing and driving projects in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineering teams

• Experience scaling manufacturing processes from development through rate production

• Familiarity with ERP/MES systems

• Hands-on experience with RCCA, assembly testing, and tooling design/fabrication

• Experience in capacity analysis, PFMEA, value stream mapping, and work center/process development

Role level to be determined during interview process

Karman Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Karman Industries is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Direct applicants only — we are not working with outside recruiters or agencies for this role.