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Head of Manufacturing Engineering

The American Housing Corporation logoThe American Housing Corporation
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SeniorityDirector / Executive
Salary$180,000–$250,000
LocationAustin, TX
Posted9/14/2026
Engineering

The American Housing Corporation is on a mission to solve the America’s housing crisis through all-out production. We believe that America’s affordability crisis is fundamentally a production crisis, and that solving it requires a vertically integrated development approach: We buy land, and manufacture, install, and sell our homes directly to customers. This is the only way to build at the scale necessary to solve this crisis.

The American Dream is built, not inherited. We're hiring the best engineers, designers, and builders to solve the hardest problem in America.

As the Head of Manufacturing Engineering, you will be responsible for the manufacturing and assembly of our building system — a proprietary kit-of-parts for building high-quality housing.

What You'll Do

  • The factory is your product — you will own everything from factory layout, equipment procurement, and factory buildout to commissioning and optimization of the factory

  • Build and lead a team of engineers, manufacturing specialists, and technicians to design, build, and operate the manufacturing facility to produce our building system

  • Collaborate with mechanical engineering and architecture teams to refine our kit-of-parts for manufacturability

  • Obtain and maintain all necessary certifications and approvals for the manufacturing facilities

  • Manage supply chain, quality, assembly, and delivery — work with company leadership to hire for these roles in the near future

  • Establish and track KPIs to understand how our engineering and manufacturing decisions are impacting the quality and cost of our buildings

  • Manage manufacturing budget, work with company leadership to project future capital requirements

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in hardware development with 3+ years in a leadership role

  • Strong technical background in mechanical design, structural analysis, DFMA, and production

  • Proven experience delivering large complex hardware products from low-rate prototypes to full-rate production

  • Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and leadership skills

  • Bachelor of Science or higher degree in a technical discipline preferred, not required

Compensation

The overall cash compensation for this position ranges from $180,000 to $250,000. All of our positions also offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.

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The American Housing Corporation logo

The American Housing Corporation

Saving the American Dream through all-out housing production.

The American Housing Corporation is focused on one of the world’s most neglected engineering frontiers: housing. Based in Austin, Texas with developments underway across the country, we’re an organization of engineers, builders, and architects working to industrialize the homebuilding process, bringing an abundance of beautiful starter homes to the nation’s most dynamic cities and neighborhoods. We’re motivated by a simple truth: housing is the cornerstone of the American Dream. Today, too many families are forced out of the cities they love because attainable, high-quality homes no longer get built. We call it the Missing Middle. We’re here to solve that crisis by fundamentally rethinking how homes are designed, delivered, and assembled in America. We’re not the first to make this promise — but we are the first to fully own the machine behind it. From buying land to building our own factories, software, equipment, and homes, we control every step of the development process. This vert

Private companyPre-seed
Founded2024
HQAustin, United States
Size
11–50 employees
IndustryManufacturing
Latest fundingPre-seed · Oct 23, 2024
Investors
Antler

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