Fairmount Technologies (FT) is a growing advanced manufacturing company developing tooling-free CNC systems for aerospace and defense applications. Our mission is to integrate real-time automation directly onto the factory floor, ensuring unprecedented precision, safety, and efficiency in aerospace component production.

🚀 Recent milestone: FT was selected for a U.S. Department of Defense APFIT award, supporting deployment of our systems across multiple Air Force maintenance depots. As we scale production and system capability, we’re expanding our production team.

We’re seeking a Product Line Owner to take responsibility for assigned machine platforms—from engineering development through production, customer deployment, and commercial growth.

The Opportunity

If you have created significant value by developing and owning new products—and want to be appropriately valued for sweating all the details—this is your chance.

This is a hands-on leadership role for a dedicated individual who combines strong engineering judgment, disciplined project management, and the ability to do what it takes to bring a product to market.

You will own a machine platform’s design and development, manufacturing planning, low-rate initial production (LRIP), and customer support. That means understanding customer needs and project goals, architecting designs, guiding technical decisions, coordinating resources, and turning the platform into a commercially successful product.

You must be able to guide work across mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and controls systems, keeping the complete machine and overall business goals in view. You’ll work closely with engineers, technicians, support staff, suppliers, and customers through prototype development, testing, LRIP, and deployment.

Core Responsibilities

• Product & Technical Ownership: Own the platform’s roadmap, requirements, system architecture, and technical decisions. Balance performance, customer needs, cost, and market opportunity.

• Engineering & Integration: Lead design reviews, guide multidisciplinary design, and resolve integration issues. Use engineering calculations and testing to inform decisions and validate performance.

• Project Execution: Manage schedules, budgets, milestones, resources, risks, and supplier commitments. Maintain accountability and meet deadlines without losing sight of overall product goals.

• Prototype to Production: Lead prototype builds, troubleshooting, testing, manufacturing planning, and LRIP. Ensure drawings, bills of materials, build documentation, and acceptance criteria support repeatable production.

• Commercialization & Sales Support: Support market positioning, customer meetings, demonstrations, application reviews, proposals, and pricing. Communicate the platform’s technical capabilities and business value.

• Customer Delivery & Support: Coordinate deployment, commissioning, acceptance, and ongoing support. Use field experience and cost data to improve reliability, serviceability, and profitability.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to own the entire technical stack of a complex machine and do what it takes to develop a new product—from initial architecture through integration, production, and customer use.

• Substantial technical engineering design experience in one or more of mechanical, electrical, controls, or hydraulic systems for complex machinery, industrial automation, CNC systems, robotics, or comparable equipment. 10+ years preferred.

• Strong engineering judgment and routine use of engineering calculations to guide designs, component selection and sizing, system integration, and performance verification.

• Practical knowledge across mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and controls disciplines, including the ability to critically review drawings, schematics, and specifications.

• Proven project management and multidisciplinary team leadership experience, with responsibility for schedules, budgets, technical risks, and delivery commitments.

• Hands-on development and troubleshooting experience, strong customer communication, and a record of taking ownership and following through.

A degree is not required. We place greater weight on demonstrated engineering judgment, calculation-based design practices, and successful product development—with or without a degree.

Preferred: Experience commercializing industrial products, supporting technical sales, scaling production, or working with aerospace and defense customers.

What We Offer

• Generous compensation, with flexibility for the right candidate, plus profit sharing.

• Potential to earn an equity stake in the company, tied to agreed milestones for successfully transitioning the product from R&D into commercial sales.

• Work closely with top leadership, with control over product decisions and accountability for results.

• Flexible working hours and long-term growth opportunities.

• Optional Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

• Paid time off and paid holidays.

When applying, include a brief example of a machine or product you helped take from development to customer use. Describe the engineering and project responsibilities you owned and the outcome.