Aircraft manufacturer designing and producing personal aviation platforms
Cirrus designs and manufactures single-engine piston and personal jet aircraft, with seven U.S. manufacturing and operations locations. The hiring mix—148 roles posted in the last 30 days across engineering, manufacturing, and ops—reflects a company scaling production and supply-chain complexity. Active projects center on manufacturing launches, lean training, and design-for-manufacturability improvements, while pain points cluster around production quality, scrap reduction, and component obsolescence, indicating the operational intensity of aircraft certification and multi-site manufacturing coordination.
Notable leadership hires: Sales Director
Founded in 1984, Cirrus is a private aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, with manufacturing and support facilities across seven U.S. locations plus international operations in the Netherlands. The company produces the SR Series piston aircraft (the industry's best-selling model in its category) and the Vision Jet (single-engine personal jet platform). Core business activities span design and development, certification planning, flight testing, and aircraft manufacturing. The technology stack reflects both engineering (MATLAB, Simulink, Creo CAD, Python) and production operations (Mazak machining, Power BI analytics, Microsoft 365 enterprise infrastructure).
Active projects include manufacturing launches of new products, lean training curriculum development, flight test programs, design-for-manufacturability and design-for-reliability improvements, and certification plan development.
Cirrus uses Creo as its primary CAD platform, alongside MATLAB and Simulink for simulation and analysis work.
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