Staff Configuration Management Specialist

Firestorm is seeking a Configuration Manager to own product configuration across our aircraft platforms. Modularity is the core of what we build: swappable propulsion, quick-change payload and mission modules, interchangeable radios, sensors, and navigation suites, and airframes that can be printed at the point of need inside an xCell. This role exists to make that modularity manageable.

What You Will Do

Own the end-to-end engineering change process — ECR authoring and analysis, CCB disposition, release, implementation, and closure verification — and run it at a cadence that matches how fast we build. Define and maintain the product variant structure for a modular aircraft family, including option dictionaries, 150% or superset BOMs, and configuration rules.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is a hands-on role reporting into Hardware Engineering, working directly alongside design engineering, production, quality, and supply chain. We are moving fast and building at increasing rate; we need someone rigorous enough to hold the line on the process and pragmatic enough to keep it from becoming a bottleneck.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• U.S. Citizenship required due to ITAR regulations
• 7+ years of configuration management, product data management, or engineering release experience in a hardware environment with real rigor (aerospace, defense, automotive, medical device, or similar)
• Demonstrated hands-on ownership of a formal change control process: ECR/ECO authoring, CCB facilitation, engineering release, and effectivity setting
• Working fluency with a PLM system (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill, ENOVIA, Duro, or similar) and with CAD data management practices
• Strong command of EBOM and MBOM structures, indented BOMs, part numbering schemes, and revision control — including where the engineering and manufacturing views legitimately diverge
• Exceptional attention to detail. You are the person who catches the wrong revision buried on line 340 of a 500-line indented BOM, and you care that it was wrong
• Demonstrated history of holding yourself and your teammates to a high standard, even when it creates discomfort.
• Ability to work from incomplete information, chase down the missing decision, and drive it to closure rather than waiting for someone else to
• Strong written communication — your baselines, change notices, and process documentation will be read by engineers, technicians, buyers, and customers alike

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plan
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Equity grants for new hires
• Unlimited PTO
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar
• Generous Parental Leave
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• FSA
• DCFSA
• HSA
• Hospital Indemnity insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Mental Health Resources