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# Software Engineer, Product at Amca

- **Company:** Amca
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amca/jobs/4366398009

## 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:

The Product Software Engineer role is an extreme ownership role and responsible for identifying where Amca moves more slowly than it should and building the software that resolves it. You will embed directly with teams at headquarters and across our factories nationwide, spending meaningful time on the floor to understand how the work actually gets done before deciding what to build.

This is a hybrid of product management, software engineering, and design. You will identify the problem, evaluate whether it is worth solving, design the solution, build it, put it in front of the people who will use it, and remain with it until it is working in practice. Some of what you build will be an exploratory prototype that answers a question within a few days and is then set aside, which is a successful outcome in its own right.You will work directly with production, quality, planning, supply chain, and engineering teams across our sites, building tools that fit the way those teams already work and that measurably improve throughput, quality, or lead time.

Responsibilities:

- Embed with teams at headquarters and at our factory sites, spending sufficient time observing operations firsthand to identify where the actual constraints are.
- Identify the problems worth solving by interviewing operators, quality, planning, supply chain, and engineering, and quantify the cost of the current process before proposing to replace it.
- Evaluate whether software is the appropriate solution, recognizing that some constraints are better addressed through process or workflow changes, and make that recommendation clearly.
- Own the product decision, including scope, prioritization, sequencing, and the choice of what not to build, without a product manager writing requirements for you.
- Build the solution end to end using TypeScript and React on the front end and Go services with their supporting data models on the back end, and take it through to production.
- Design the interfaces yourself, producing clear and efficient experiences suited to use in a production environment.
- Move quickly from concept to working software, putting a usable version in front of users early so that their feedback can validate or redirect the approach.
- Drive adoption after launch by working alongside users, gathering feedback, and iterating until the tool is delivering measurable value.
- Determine what happens to each project once it has proven itself, hardening successful prototypes into supported products with a clear owner and deliberately retiring those that have not earned continued investment.

Basic Qualifications:

- 4+ years shipping production full-stack software
- Production experience with TypeScript and React
- Backend service and API development in a typed language, with strong data modeling instincts
- Demonstrated ownership of a project from problem discovery through deployment, adoption, and iteration, rather than working from assigned tickets
- Genuine comfort working directly with non-technical users, including on a factory floor
- Willingness to travel to Amca factory sites across the United States as needed

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Some form of full-stack experience (Typescript, React, Go, Python, SQL)
- Experience in manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, field operations, or another operations-heavy domain
- Strong design sense, with the ability to produce a clean and usable interface without a designer
- SQL proficiency and the confidence to work through an unfamiliar database to answer your own questions
- Experience integrating with ERP, MES, PLM, or other systems of record and their integration surfaces
- A track record of internal tooling with demonstrated adoption
- Startup or small-team experience with end-to-end ownership of a product surface
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or another regulated manufacturing environment

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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