Senior Manufacturing Engineer

About the role

Own manufacturing engineering for parts as they come off the design team. You will take on process, tooling, and production responsibility so design engineers can stay on design and bring-up. You will decide which parts of a design are stable enough to tool up and document, and which need to stay flexible — and you will be able to explain why. Above all, you will design the processes that turn a weekly-changing design into a build that runs the same way every time. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Production processes that are designed, documented, and stable enough for the floor to run without the design engineer standing next to them
• DFM feedback delivered early and often, so manufacturability is settled before a design hardens — and design changes that reach the floor without breaking it
• Clean design-to-manufacturing handoffs, including for parts not yet at full design lock, with judgment applied to what gets systematized and what stays flexible
• Functional, end-to-end test fixtures and protocols that catch defects at the electronics assembly stage rather than at final build
• Jigs, fixtures, and assembly aids that raise throughput and repeatability across electronics integration and mechanical assembly
• Equipment and workstations owned from first request through ramp — specification, sourcing, vendor buy-off, installation, and handoff to production
• Station layout, line balance, and capacity modeled ahead of demand, so the floor is ready for the next doubling before it arrives
• A manufacturing backbone built from the ground up — work instructions, revision and change practices, production documentation — extending the lightweight in-house system already in place
• Cycle time