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If you're excited about disrupting legacy industries, and passionate about building the financial infrastructure behind cutting-edge hardware, let's chat!\nWe are at the forefront of innovation, crafting exclusive motion control components that propel the industrial, aerospace, and defense sectors into the future.\nA couple other things:\nWe offer a lot of autonomy\nWe like to run lean for impact\nWe have great benefits\nWe are well funded, and already generating revenue\nWe're currently in Torrance, CA, but will be moving into a new facility in Hawthorne, CA in the summer!\nAbout the role: \nThe Category Manager, Mechanical Equipment owns the mechanical supply base behind Salient Motion's actuator product lines. 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