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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\nWe’re building a new kind of aircraft, and we’re building the factories to produce it. We’re hiring a Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Engineer to help turn early builds into a repeatable, high-rate manufacturing operation where quality is designed in from the start.\nThis is a chance to shape the floor while the decisions still matter. You’ll work across design, manufacturing, materials and processes, and operations to define how we inspect composite and metallic structures across the company. There is no legacy inspection system to inherit here. You’ll be building it.\nWhat you’ll do\nDefine and stand up our NDI capability: select methods, specify equipment, and write the inspection procedures for composite and metallic components\n\nDevelop inspection plans, accept/reject criteria, and reference standards in partnership with design and stress engineering\n\nCreate quality documentation and control requirements that hold up as we scale from first articles to rate production\n\nWork directly with the people designing and building the aircraft to influence designs for inspectability and catch problems before they become permanent features of the build\n\nApply Statistical Process Control (SPC) to inspection and manufacturing data so we can see process drift early and act on it\n\nDisposition defects, support material review and root cause investigations, and feed what you learn back into design and process\n\nIdentify bottlenecks early, test improvements on the floor, and use production data to improve throughput, quality, and predictability\n\nLay the groundwork for an NDI team: training, qualification, and certification programs for the inspectors and engineers who follow\n\nWhat you bring\nNDI experience in aerospace, composites, metallics, or another complex hardware manufacturing environment\n\nHands-on experience establishing new NDI procedures for a program, company, or production line\n\nWorking knowledge of composite and metallic materials and processes, and how they affect the capability and limitations of different inspection methods\n\nDepth in one or more methods such as ultrasonic (including phased array), radiography or CT, thermography, eddy current, penetrant, or magnetic particle\n\nFamiliarity with NDI qualification and certification standards (NAS 410, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, or equivalent)\n\nThe judgment to put structure in place where it helps, without slowing down the team doing the work\n\nNice to have\nNAS 410 Level III certification, or a clear path to it\n\nExperience building or leading an NDI team or written practice from scratch\n\nBackground in automated inspection or high-rate composite production\n\nExperience with aerospace quality systems such as AS9100\n\nRequirements\nMust be a U.S. person due to ITAR requirements\n\nAble to work on-site in Fayetteville, AR\n\nYou’ll have unusual ownership here. 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