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Configuration & BOM Engineer

Helsing· Hardware Engineering
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Washington, DCPosted 6d ago

About the role

Single owner of the Bill of Materials (BOM) across products, aligning design, procurement, quality and manufacturing to a buildable, auditable data structure. Responsible for BOM health, mass, cost, origin, and readiness, while driving data standards and change management.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a single, trusted source of truth for product structure across all programs, revisions and configurations.
  • Track as-designed and as-built mass at line, assembly and system level. Surface variance against allocation early, and make it visible to the people who can act on it.
  • Maintain target, quoted and actual cost per line; roll up to assembly and unit cost; track cost at volume and flag drift against program targets.
  • Record and verify country of origin and manufacturer for every part. Flag sourcing, export-control, ITAR/EAR and supply-chain-resilience risks to the relevant teams before they become schedule risks.
  • Define and maintain the status model that the whole company runs on (Engineering released, Sourced, On order, EDD).
  • Determine when an assembly's inputs are sufficiently cleared, ordered and inbound to trigger manufacturing to prepare for receiving and production.
  • Run the ECO/ECN process: assess change impact on mass, cost, schedule and inventory; manage effectivity and obsolescence; ensure CAD changes are reflected in the BOM.
  • Define and improve PLM/ERP data model, tooling and automation so BOM health is continuously visible.
  • Provide engineering leadership and program management with a clear, current view of build readiness, long-lead exposure, cost and mass position, and blockers.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience owning BOMs for complex electromechanical hardware in a fast-moving environment (aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, space or consumer hardware at scale).
  • Deep practical fluency with PLM and ERP systems (e.g. ION, Windchill, Teamcenter, Arena, Duro, Odoo, SAP, NetSuite) and a clear view of how product data should be structured.
  • Strong working knowledge of engineering change management, revision and configuration control, and effectivity.
  • Comfortable reading mechanical drawings, electrical schematics and CAD assemblies, and able to challenge an engineer on what they have actually released.
  • Experience working directly with procurement and suppliers on lead times, quotes, origin and qualification.
  • Highly numerate and systematic; automation via scripting, SQL or Python is a strong advantage.
  • Exceptionally organized and direct; proactive in chasing missing lines and escalating when needed.
  • Ability to work with ambiguity and set standards where none exist yet.
  • US Citizenship.

Skills

Required:Bill of Materials (BOM) ownershipPLM/ERP systemsEngineering change managementReading engineering drawingsProcurement collaboration
Nice to have:Automation / scripting

Benefits

  • A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking
  • Generous compensation and benefits package (health, travel insurance, flexible paid time off, holidays, remote/hybrid work)
  • Growth toward global roles in our Finance organization
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

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