Join our fast-paced and passionate team as a Principal Build Project Engineer.
As we scale, you will be instrumental in building our foundation from the ground up. This is a dynamic, hands-on role for a self-starter who thrives in a fluid startup environment. You'll have the opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, work closely with leadership, and develop and implement best practices that support our mission and growth. Your key responsibilities are as follows:
- Provide strategic ownership of build schedules across multiple programs, ensuring alignment of milestone dates, crossteam dependencies, and critical path activities at the organizational level.
- Lead planning and execution of early engineering prototype builds and guide teams through the transition to stable, scalable production builds, partnering with Process Development and Operations to meet longterm production performance targets.
- Drive predictable and repeatable build execution by influencing coordination across Supply Chain, Design Engineering, Process Development, and Operations, removing crossprogram bottlenecks and enabling efficient delivery.
- Oversee BOM, drawing, tooling, and inspection readiness for complex or multiteam builds, ensuring Design Engineering and Process Development resolve gaps before they impact execution.
- Deliver clear, programlevel build progress updates, synthesizing risks, trends, and outcomes for leadership and stakeholders.
- Anticipate and escalate schedule risks early, providing databacked mitigation strategies that protect overall program timelines.
- Ensure robust configuration management across builds and programs, maintaining accurate serialnumberlevel records of material, part, process, and approved configuration variants.
- Direct tracking of critical and longlead material readiness, ensuring supply continuity through proactive engagement with Supply Chain on order status, expected receipts, and buffer strategies.
- Oversee incoming inspection and certification readiness for critical parts, ensuring quality and compliance processes support build objectives.
- Maintain a comprehensive, crossfunctional risk and issue log, driving accountability through clearly defined owners, action plans, and resolution targets.
- Foster hightrust collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams, championing recognition, shared success, and behaviors that reinforce company values and program excellence.
Requirements
- This position requires access to export-controlled information. Employment is contingent upon the applicant being a U.S. person as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
Experience:
- Master's degree in engineering or a related field.
- 8+ years or more of relevant experience (including pursuit of relevant higher education); ideally within a startup or technology company.
Skills:
- Proven ability to lead crossfunctional execution of complex, multiphase hardware programs from early engineering prototypes through NPI and full production readiness, ensuring alignment across engineering, manufacturing, and operations organizations.
- Deep, working knowledge across hardware development and manufacturing domains, including manufacturing engineering, process development, systems engineering, test, optics/photonics, quality, system integration, and the endtoend product development lifecycle, with the ability to provide strategic guidance across these areas.
- Strong capability to communicate, influence, and coordinate effectively with technical experts across diverse engineering disciplines, enabling clear decisionmaking, alignment, and crossteam collaboration at the program level.
Startup Mindset:
- You're creative, flexible, and eager to wear multiple hats.
- You're passionate about building systems from the ground up and comfortable with ambiguity and change.
Benefits
The expected annual salary range for this position is $180,000-$225,000.
As a full-time employee, you will be eligible for Monarch’s comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Fidelity 401(k) plan with 4% employer matching
- 20 paid time off (PTO) days per year
- 13 paid company holidays
- 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off)
Monarch Quantum is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state and local laws.
