# Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Making the Metals Powering the World Solcoa is building the next generation of American metalmaking, starting with rare earths - the metals of power and motion. We've developed a new chemistry that converts rare earth oxides into high-purity metals - the materials inside every EV, fighter jet, wind turbine, and data center - cleaner, cheaper, and faster than any conventional process. Now we're scaling it to thousands of tonnes of annual production. The Role Senior Manufacturing Engineer will own the hands-on buildout of Solcoa’s vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnaces, turning engineering designs into reliable, production-ready equipment. You will work directly with engineering, suppliers, fabrication technicians, and contractors to deliver multiple furnace systems from drawing review and procurement through assembly, commissioning, and first melts. You will establish the shop capabilities, build procedures, and quality standards that make each subsequent system faster and cheaper to build. What You’ll Do Furnace Assembly and Commissioning. Lead the buildout of multiple VIM furnace systems, including mechanical assembly, vacuum and gas handling, and power and controls integration.

- **Id**: 3544044
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/solcoa-senior-manufacturing-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Alameda, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T17:44:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T15:52:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2700
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Stock options, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Rare Earth Metals

## Company

- **Id**: 720862
- **Name**: Solcoa
- **Domain**: solcoaindustries.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/solcoaindustries>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.643
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 117000
- **Max usd**: 220000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 6333

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T20:14:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 19; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 19 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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