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Work on machines that build the things people fly in
This is not a simulation problem. The models you train drive real drilling machines into real titanium on a real wing, and a mechanic three feet away will tell you immediately if you got it wrong.
Team size
68
▲ +89% increase
On a line this quarter
61%
Median time to offer
18 days
Nine positions, seven teams
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| Apply | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics Controls Engineer, Drilling & Fastening | Robotics | Everett, WA | Full-time | Apply |
| Perception Engineer, Hole & Fastener Inspection | Perception | Everett, WA | Full-time | Apply |
| Metrology Software Engineer | Metrology | Wichita, KS | Full-time | Apply |
| Applied Scientist, Predictive Shimming | Research | Remote (US) | Full-time | Apply |
| Manufacturing Engineer, Deployment | Field | Charleston, SC | Full-time | Apply |
| Edge Infrastructure Engineer | Platform | Remote (US) | Full-time | Apply |
| Quality & Airworthiness Lead | Quality | Everett, WA | Full-time | Apply |
| Solutions Architect, Defense Programs | Field | Fort Worth, TX | Full-time | Apply |
| Product Designer, Data Interfaces | Product | Remote (US) | Full-time | Apply |
Close to the line, by design
| Location | People |
|---|---|
| Everett, WA (HQ) | 31 |
| Remote (US) | 16 |
| Charleston, SC | 9 |
| Wichita, KS | 7 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 5 |
Remote is real, but the line is not optional
Sixteen people work remotely full-time and it works. What is not optional — for any engineering role — is spending time at a station. Every engineer visits a customer line at least once a quarter, and most go far more often.
The reason is simple: a mechanic will tell you in thirty seconds why your recommendation is wrong, and no amount of dashboard-watching will produce that information.
Engineers on a line this quarter
61%
Median line visits per engineer
5.2 /yr
The process, and how long each stage takes
- STEP 01
Intro call
Forty-five minutes with the hiring manager. What you have built, what you want to build, and an honest description of what is hard about this problem.
Typical wait3 days
- STEP 02
Technical deep dive
Ninety minutes on your actual work — no algorithm puzzles. For applied roles, we work through a real (de-identified) assembly problem together.
Typical wait5 days
- STEP 03
Line visit
You spend half a day at a customer station with the team. This is as much for you as for us; some people discover they hate factories.
DurationHalf day
- STEP 04
Decision
Written decision within three business days of the final conversation, with substantive feedback either way.
Median total18 days
What we offer
- Equity
- Every employee, 10-year exercise
- Salary bands
- Published internally
- Location adjustment
- None — one US band
- Review cadence
- Twice yearly
- Refresh grants
- Annual, performance-linked
- Health, dental, vision
- 100% employee, 80% dependants
- Retirement
- 5% match, immediate vest
- Parental leave
- 18 weeks, all parents
- Paid time off
- 25 days + public holidays
- Sabbatical
- 6 weeks at 4 years
- Home setup
- $3,500 initial
- Learning budget
- $4,000 / year
- Line travel
- Fully covered
- Relocation
- Supported to any hub
- Visa sponsorship
- Yes, most roles
Some roles on defense programs require US citizenship and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Those roles are marked in the job description, not discovered at offer stage.
Six things that are actually true here
Nobody ships on vibes
Every claim, internal or external, has a measurement behind it. "It feels better" is the start of a conversation, not the end of one.
Mechanics outrank models
When the station disagrees with the model, the station is right until proven otherwise. That is not humility, it is empiricism.
Safety arguments end debates
Anyone at any level can stop a promotion on safety grounds and does not have to justify it to a schedule.
We write things down
Decisions live in documents with the reasoning attached, so a new engineer can reconstruct why the envelope is what it is.
Small teams, whole problems
A team owns an agent end to end — perception through control through the station UI. No throwing work over a wall.
Boring infrastructure is a feature
The edge runtime is deliberately unexciting. Excitement in industrial software is usually a synonym for an incident.
How the team has grown, and where it is going
| Quarter | Robotics & controls | Perception & ML | Platform & edge | Field & deployment | Everything else | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 2025 Q2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 24 |
| 2025 Q4 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 41 |
| 2026 Q2 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 58 |
| 2026 Q3 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 68 |
| 2027 Q1 (plan) | 21 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 93 |
Three people, three questions, one system
Plant / Operations Director
Owns rate, quality, rework and airworthiness.
“Can I hold takt through the ramp without adding positions?”
Sees: Rate, takt adherence, travelled work, overtime, cost per airframe.
Manufacturing / Liaison Engineer
Owns drilling programs, shimming, fit-up and assembly quality.
“Will this join close in one pass, and what shim do I machine?”
Sees: Predicted gap field, shim geometry, drilling programs, fit-up iterations.
Quality / Airworthiness Engineer
Owns AS9100, hole and fastener conformance and traceability.
“Can I prove every fastener on this airframe was installed to spec?”
Sees: Conformance, NCR flow, FOD events, immutable trace, audit export.
Assembly autonomy, measured on the line
Every figure below is produced by the same telemetry the agents act on — station cycle, hole quality, gap field, fastener state and conformance. Pilot and design-partner aggregate, trailing 12 months.
Holes drilled under agent control
41.6M
▲ +32% increase
Right-first-time, structural joins
97.9%
▲ +9.1% increase
Shim hours removed per join
68%
▼ -68% decrease
Assembly-line uptime
99.94%
▲ +0.3% increase
Aggregate across design-partner lines. Baselines are the same stations before Rivetira, measured over an equivalent period.
What changes on the floor
Plant directors, liaison engineers and airworthiness leads on what autonomy did to their numbers.
“We stopped arguing about whether the gap was 0.4 or 0.6 millimetres. The twin predicted it, the shim came off the machine right, and the join closed in one pass.”
−64% shim hours per join
“The rate ramp was going to cost us four more positions. Instead the line rebalanced itself every shift and we found the capacity inside the stations we already had.”
+38% delivered rate
“Every hole is now inspected, not one in four. My airworthiness record writes itself, and I can hand an auditor a complete trace in ninety seconds.”
100% inspection coverage
Questions engineers actually ask
Anything else goes to the people who build it. Ask an assembly engineer or read the full FAQ.
No, and roughly 40% of the team did not have it when they joined. What is required is willingness to learn a physical domain properly — reading tolerance stack-ups, understanding why a countersink depth matters, and being comfortable in steel-toed boots.
No. We look at your actual work and talk through a real problem live. Take-homes select for people with spare evenings, not for people who are good at this.
For most engineering and research roles, yes — with quarterly line visits that are non-negotiable and fully paid for. Field and deployment roles are based near customer sites by nature.
Write to us anyway with what you would want to work on here. Several of the current team created their own role that way, including two of the most senior engineers.
Tell us what you want to build
A line assessment maps one station, quantifies the rework, shim and rate opportunity, and returns a modelled ROI in three weeks. No production disruption.