Production Engineer (Fabrication)

About Alteon The Wright Brothers gave humanity flight, Alteon exists to give humanity perpetual flight. We are building the world's highest endurance planes that can fly over the oceans for 417 days at a time.

With these, we're creating a world where you can have perpetual real time visibility across 100% of the ocean. A world where a million perpetually flying airplanes create a new layer of aerial infra that makes it possible to track the movement of every ship. Putting an end to all crime offshore from drug and human trafficking to terror attacks like 26/11, among other things.

As a company, we're driven by pushing the boundaries of what's possible – we don't like to settle for good enough. We are here to build the best technology possible, the best airplane possible, to do the best engineering possible. Limited only by the laws of physics.

About the role
As Production Engineer, you'll own aircraft assembly and the production process around it. You'll build aircraft, and with every build, figure out how to make the next one faster, more reliable, and more repeatable — designing jigs, fixtures, and tooling along the way.

We're building airplanes that have never existed before, which means the way they're built is constantly evolving. Your job is to bring rigour and repeatability to production — turning what is currently a craft process into something that scales. Every change you make should contribute to manufacturability, repeatability, and build quality.

This role is hands-on and technical. You'll work closely with every other technical function — design, composites, electronics, etc — evaluating changes from a manufacturing lens and proposing improvements that make aircraft easier to build reliably.

You'll thrive here if you:
Take pride in a clean build — sloppy work bothers you even when no one's watching.
Obsess over eliminating variation. If two builds come out different, you want to know why and fix it.
Document naturally.
Are comfortable pushing back on design decisions that make manufacturing harder than it needs to be.
Treat delivery commitments as non-negotiable — if you said five planes this week, that's what ships.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Aircraft Assembly: Hands-on assembly of aircraft. Own build quality and delivery cadence.
• Jigs, Fixtures & Tooling: Design and build the jigs, fixtures, and tooling that make assembly repeatable. You'll be the one machining, fabricating, and iterating on these yourself — not handing off drawings to someone else.
• Production Improvement: Continuously reduce assembly cycle time and eliminate sources of defects. Every build should be easier and more reliable than the last.
• Cross-Functional Input: Work with every other technical function — design, composites, electronics, avionics — to evaluate changes from a manufacturing lens and flag what will or won't work for assembly.