About Portal

Portal Space Systems is on a mission to expand humanity’s freedom of movement in space. We’re building the spacecraft that makes that mission possible. From our Bothell, WA headquarters, we design vehicles with the maneuverability, resilience, and adaptability needed for the next era of orbital operations. Every system we build is in service of a simple idea: space should be more accessible, responsive, and capable. Joining Portal means stepping into a team that believes in bold engineering, fast iteration, and the power of small groups to change what’s possible. If you want your work to directly shape the future of in-space mobility, join us.

Position Summary

As a Principal Production Systems Architect, you will own the vision and implementation of a world class production system architecture that combines the flexibility and agility of a startup with the configuration control and design rigorof a mature aerospace OEM. Portal is built on its ability to innovate and ideate instantaneously in an environment that demands precision and surety. Ensuring that interactions between the PLM, ERP and MES systems are nimble, efficient and reliable will be a top priority.

This is a hands-on system development role requiring close collaboration with enterprise IT, design teams, manufacturing, integration, test, systems engineering, and suppliers. You will be expected to move quickly, make sound engineering decisions, and own the interaction of production control systems with design tools, technician interfaces, and manufacturing resource planning.

Responsibilities

Build a bold vision for the production system architecture that will be the foundation of how other teams interact with and support the production system itself.
Author command documentation for design standards, standard operating procedures, process definition.
Define requirements around MBOM structure and composition including reconciliation with the EBOM.
Ensure system support of financial reporting tools including clear audit trails and SOX compliance.
Define how manufacturing engineering will interact with the PLM system and what configuration control looks like for production.
Create manufacturing artifacts to act as a single source of truth for process and production requirements as they relate to space craft hardware design.
Own the definition and application of DFx principles ensuring that hardware design not only meets ambitious performance targets but is also producible in the real world.
Define best practices for manufacturing engineering usage of CAD software facilitate the development of production system hardware, processes and more.
You will ensure overall system simplicity in passing manufacturing data from one sub-system to another such that engineers and technicians will not have to manually input manufacturing data that is already contextualized in the system.
Ensure that automation connectors attached to the production system maintain consistent contextualization with order numbers, batch numbers, serial numbers and more.
Define a robust integration of GSE design elements with MES system structure so that the tools something is built with seamlessly tie into the rest of the build definition.
Develop and mentor early career engineers into the next generation of industry leading experts ensuring that future leaders have a sound footing production system excellence.
You will be Portal’s foremost expert on GD&T per ASME Y14.5-2009 ensuring engineering compliance with the standard, developing and maintaining best practices as well as being responsible for mentoring others on the practice.

Basic Qualifications

Seven + years of professional experience defining aerospace production systems including MES implementation, manufacturing system design standards and production process requirements.
Demonstrated expert experience of aerospace manufacturing processes.
Strong CAD, PLM and MES experience in defining new and mature production system artifacts and interactions.
Experience in manufacturing process fundamentals as well as adjacent design and analysis principles as they relate to manufacturing requirements.