# Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Parallax Space is building a new model for the space industry-delivering satellites and critical space components with the speed, scale, and reliability demanded by the next generation of space missions. We combine advanced engineering, vertically integrated manufacturing, and production-focused design to make space hardware production more repeatable, predictable, and scalable. Position Overview Parallax Space is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to architect, implement, and scale manufacturing capabilities across satellite systems, subsystems, and critical space components. This foundational technical leader will build the production architecture, manufacturing engineering organization, factory infrastructure, and disciplined processes required to progress from early builds to sustained rate manufacturing. The ideal candidate has personally built manufacturing operations, can translate product designs into controlled and repeatable processes, and is equally effective defining strategy, leading teams, and solving technical problems on the production floor. The mandate is to industrialize complex space hardware with a focus on throughput, quality, cost, and scalability. Ke

- **Id**: 3858615
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/parallax-space-principal-manufacturing-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Denver, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T19:38:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:48:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8085
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace, Launch Services, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 4520011
- **Name**: Parallax Space
- **Domain**: parallaxspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/parallax-space>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Technologies

- **AS9100** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Statistical Process Control** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T07:57:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.716
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 15
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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