Role

We are hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead the manufacturing strategy, process development, and production readiness of fuselage structures for Allied’s products. This role sits at the centre of our hardware engineering work: translating engineering intent into robust, repeatable, and scalable build processes.

You will own the manufacturing domain for fuselage structures from early DfM input through tooling, process definition, prototype builds, first article, and rate production. You will work closely with design engineering, quality, suppliers, and the wider production team to ensure structural assemblies are practical to build, inspect, maintain, and scale.

You will be responsible for MBOM definition, manufacturing process flows, tooling and fixture strategy, work instructions, tolerance build-up, inspection approach, and configuration control. You will use manufacturing judgement, build data, first-principles problem solving, and physical test evidence to move quickly without compromising quality or technical integrity.

As part of a small, high-accountability team, you will have significant ownership over how our airframe structures are industrialised and scaled. This is a hands-on role for someone who has delivered complex aerospace or defence assemblies before and wants to build critical defence technology at pace.

About Allied

We’re a defence technology company reimagining how capability gets developed, built, and deployed. Our team comes from military service, government, and engineering — united not by background but by purpose. We work as a circle of peers, not a hierarchy. We prove what works in weeks, not years.

We’re backed by leading investors and working with best-in-class partners to strengthen western democracies. We don’t say that lightly.

About You

• 7+ years in aerospace, defence, automotive, or adjacent high-performance manufacturing
• Proven experience industrialising metallic or composite airframe structures, ideally including fuselage or primary structural assemblies
• Strong understanding of DfMA, manufacturing process design, tooling, fixturing, inspection, and production readiness
• Experience taking structural assemblies from early design through prototype build, first article, test support, and production release
• Comfortable producing and reviewing drawings, GD&T, interface definitions, tolerance stacks, work instructions, and configuration-controlled manufacturing data
• Hands-on experience working with design teams, quality teams, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to resolve build, quality, and production-readiness issues
• Familiarity with root cause analysis, non-conformance management, and continuous improvement methods

You are

• Comfortable operating in a small, high-accountability team
• Highly ownership-driven with strong internal standards
• A structured thinker with a bias toward practical execution
• Calm under pressure
• Able to move quickly while maintaining manufacturing discipline

Hiring Process

1. Initial chat (30 mins) – A casual conversation with our CTO, to discuss your background, interests, and the role.
2. Culture interviews (30 mins each) – Conversations with other team members to discuss our company culture, values, and how you would fit in.
3. Take-home assignment – A technical task that you can complete at your own pace. This will help us assess your technical skills and how you approach problem-solving.
4. Technical interview (1 hour) – In this session we’ll review your take-home assignment and work together to further progress the task. This is also an opportunity for you to ask any technical questions you may have.
5. CEO interview (30 mins) – A conversation with Jon, Allied Founder & CEO.
6. Offer – If we find that you are a good fit for the role and our team, we will extend an offer to you.