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Salary: USD 336,810 - 353,650 / annual
Archer Technologies, an aerospace and defense company headquartered in San Jose, is seeking a Senior Manager of Dimensional Engineering to lead the dimensional engineering strategy for complex aerospace and eVTOL structures. This role combines technical expertise with people leadership, overseeing dimensional engineering teams while ensuring geometric integrity, tolerance robustness, and compliance with ASME Y14.5 and aerospace standards across the product lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include defining and approving GD&T schemes, datum structures, and tolerance allocation methodologies for composite, machined, bonded, and assembled components. You will establish dimensional control plans, key characteristics, and variation reduction strategies for flight-critical structures, integrating statistical tolerance analysis and risk-based prioritization. The role requires developing and reviewing measurement strategies, inspection plans, and metrology requirements, including CMM, laser scanning, photogrammetry, and tooling validation methods.
You will oversee dimensional validation activities during prototype, pre-production, and production phases, ensuring readiness for certification, conformity, and regulatory audits. Technical leadership includes interpreting aerospace specifications, early architecture documents, and evolving design definitions to guide downstream dimensional decisions. As a manager, you will mentor dimensional engineering teams, set technical standards, review analyses, and ensure consistency of best practices across programs. You will also interface with DERs, certification authorities, and internal stakeholders to support compliance documentation, dimensional substantiation, and audit readiness.
Required qualifications include a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of dimensional engineering experience with diverse manufacturing processes. You must have in-depth knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5 standards (1994/2009/2018), diverse measurement systems, basic statistical concepts and process control, and proficiency in 1D and 3D dimensional variation analysis and 3DCS software. Up to 15% domestic and international travel is required.
