System Configuration Engineer II

Firefly Aerospace

Configuration Engineer responsible for vehicle level configuration management in aerospace technology. Overseeing CAD integration and ensuring traceability across engineering disciplines at Firefly Aerospace.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeCedar Park • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own configuration management for your vehicle, maintaining traceability between appropriate revisions of hardware assemblies, software, and test plans.
Own the vehicle-level CAD integration, assembly hierarchy and assembly drawings.
Serve as a reviewer and approver for all lower-level assembly drawings.
Work directly with subsystem design leads to ensure complete & accurate metadata (materials, etc).
Work with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure the CAD is integrated with GSE designs, and publish vehicle test configurations for test plan and procedure authoring.
Own the Mass Growth Allowance process throughout the vehicle lifecycle, as well as vehicle mass properties predictions and verification plans.
Administer the change review board, ensure all changes are properly documented before closure, and traceable to the appropriate configuration.
Drive the release of all CDR deliverables ahead of the design freeze for each vehicle.
Drive continual improvement to Firefly system design and manufacturing policies and practices, leading lessons learned, providing to and implementing feedback from design engineering teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline required
3+ years of focused hands-on experience with CAD design and complex assembly management, equivalent mechanical work will be considered.
Expert in GD&T, design for manufacturing, and design for assembly.
Strong working knowledge of fabrication and assembly methodologies, production management tools, and quality control processes.
Exceptional comprehension of first principles in mechanical, structural dynamics, materials, electrical, mechatronics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, orbital mechanics, controls, and propulsion.
Amenable to travel and schedule flexibility leading up to program milestone
Good communication with all position levels within the company
Exceptional public speaking and presentation skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles
parental leave
educational reimbursement
short term disability
flexible PTO options

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Hard Skills & Tools

CAD designassembly managementGD&Tdesign for manufacturingdesign for assemblyfabrication methodologiesquality control processesmechanical principlesstructural dynamicspropulsion

Soft Skills

communicationpublic speakingpresentation skillsschedule flexibilityteam collaborationleadershipproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitycontinuous improvement

Certifications

BS in Aerospace EngineeringBS in Mechanical Engineering