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# Lead Mechanical Engineer at Amca

- **Company:** Amca
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2026-05-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amca/jobs/4253452009

## Job description

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview:

You will be a senior technical contributor on Amca's mechanical engineering team, owning the design, build, or test of flight hardware within a defined mechanical discipline — such as fluid systems, mechanisms, structural assemblies, cockpit avionics hardware, or power electronics packaging. You will work closely with the Mechanical Engineering Manager and cross-functional teams to take hardware from concept through qualification and into production. This is a deeply hands-on role for an engineer who thrives on hard technical problems, takes full ownership of their work, and is ready to grow into broader leadership over time.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the technical lead for a defined mechanical discipline, owning design decisions and outcomes end-to-end
- Building out your own team of mechanical engineers, having extreme ownership over team progression
- Execute and oversee detailed design work including drawings, GD&T, FEA, component specifications, and risk assessments
- Drive hardware from bench prototype through qualification and production handoff, leveraging Amca's in-house R&D lab and protoshop
- Lead or support qualification campaigns including functional, environmental, pneumatic, hydraulic, and structural testing per MIL-STD and applicable aerospace standards
- Spearhead root cause investigations in development, production, and test; own corrective actions through resolution
- Ensure designs are optimized from day one for reliability, manufacturability, and cost
- Provide technical mentorship and informal guidance to less experienced engineers on the team
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, software, and build engineering to deliver integrated hardware systems
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to raising the technical bar across the mechanical engineering function
- Support customer-facing engagements and program reviews as a subject matter expert in your discipline

Qualifications:

- Substantial experience in mechanical engineering for aerospace or defense hardware, with a strong track record taking products from concept through flight qualification and into production
- Deep technical expertise in at least one mechanical discipline — such as fluid systems (pneumatic or hydraulic), mechanisms, structural design, cockpit avionics packaging, or power electronics enclosures — with working fluency across adjacent areas
- Hands-on and lab-comfortable; expected to be in the protoshop and on the bench, not just at a CAD station
- Strong command of engineering first principles across thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and solid mechanics; proven ability to simplify requirements and cut complexity
- Experience with Siemens NX or equivalent CAD package; familiarity with FEA tools and test instrumentation
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, DO-160, and other aerospace qualification frameworks
- Independent, direct, and action-oriented; takes full ownership and thrives with minimal oversight
- Nascent leadership instincts — comfortable informally guiding peers and ready to grow into broader responsibility over time

Annual Salary Range $150,000—$200,000 USD

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.

## About Amca

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Amca (Advanced Manufacturing Company of America) integrates design, rapid prototyping, qualification, and AS9100D-certified production to deliver critical aerospace and defense components in weeks instead of years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $76.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jai Malik (CEO & Co-Founder), Eli Giovanetti (COO & Co-Founder); Varun Gupta serves as Chairman

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Aerospace and defense component manufacturing; avionics, hydraulics, electrical systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise – primes such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, and U.S. military sustainment programs. Platforms include F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320, M1 Abrams, and more.
- **Mission / purpose**: Build America’s new industrial base – faster, distributed, and multi-sourced – to increase competition and capacity for every class of critical component.

## Products & Services
- **Integrated Manufacturing System**: A unified workflow that combines rapid prototyping, software-enabled testing, qualification, and certified production across a network of AS9100D-certified factories.  
  *Type: Service / Manufacturing-as-a-Service*
- **Component Lines**: A growing portfolio of parts and subsystems across avionics, hydraulics, and electrical systems. Products are flying on platforms such as the F-35, 737, A320, and Patriot Missile.  
  *Type: Hardware (Manufactured components)*
- **Acquired Legacy Factories**: Amca has acquired several established manufacturers (e.g., Payne Magnetics, Electrocube, Cal-Draulics, Aerospace Control Products, Electro-Mech Components) to fold their capabilities into its integrated system.  
  *Type: Acquisition-led capacity expansion*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $76.5M (Seed round, May 2025, led by Caffeinated Capital)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Caffeinated Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Founders Fund
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 32 employees ( +309.1% YoY, +7.1% monthly growth)
  - Active job postings: 24 ( +71.4% monthly, +500% quarterly)
  - Acquired six legacy manufacturing companies since inception (2024–2025)
  - Supplies components for major defense platforms (F-35, F-16, F/A-18, M1 Abrams) and commercial aircraft (737, 787, A320)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated single system** – Combines design, prototyping, qualification, and production under one roof, eliminating the years-long silos of traditional suppliers.
- **Speed to production** – Can move from requirement to manufactured components within weeks, compared to typical multi-year timelines.
- **AS9100D-certified factory network** – Provides certified production capacity that is flexible and scalable, with dedicated lines for specific components.
- **Multi-sourcing & domestic resilience** – Reduces single-source dependence and builds a distributed U.S. industrial base.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue acquiring and integrating legacy aerospace/defense suppliers to broaden component classes and production capacity.
- Expand engineering and manufacturing talent to support new platform wins and sustainment programs.
- Scale the “integrated manufacturing system” model to become the default partner for critical component production in the U.S. defense and commercial aerospace sectors.

## Why Work Here
- **High ownership & rapid promotion** – The company emphasizes “unreasonably high degree of ownership” and fast career advancement for top performers.
- **Small, mission-driven team** – Currently 32 employees, with a culture of honest communication and full ownership of domains.
- **Office environment** – Described as “one of the most beautiful offices anywhere in the country” (El Segundo, CA). Hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated; headquarters are in El Segundo with additional offices in Dallas, TX.
- **Engineering culture** – Staff come from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, and other top aerospace/defense companies; 36% of employees in technical roles.
- **Impact** – Everything built goes on planes that millions of people fly on, and on military platforms that protect national security.

## Sources
1. [amca.com – Who We Are](https://www.amca.com/who-we-are)
2. [amca.com – Our Products](https://www.amca.com/our-products)
3. [amca.com – Careers](https://www.amca.com/careers)
4. [careers.amca.com – Amca Careers](https://careers.amca.com/)
5. [LinkedIn – Amca Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/amcainc)

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