Senior Manufacturing Engineer
$130,000–$180,000 year
On-site · Redwood Shores, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manufacturing Engineer to own manufacturing engineering for parts transitioning off the design team; build design-to-manufacturing handoffs; develop test fixtures; design jigs and automation; build manufacturing backbone; collaborate on DFM; hire/lead team (~2 in first year); on-site in Redwood Shores, CA; reports to COO and collaborates with CTO and design engineering leadership; role involves leading a growing manufacturing engineering function in a hardware environment with manual-to-semi-automated processes and high-volume production (currently ~1,000 units/month, doubling every six months).
Required Qualifications
- ~5+ years in engineering, preferably manufacturing, with a track record in NPI and assembly
- A senior individual contributor ready to step into leadership — prior direct reports aren't required, but the instinct and appetite to build and lead a team are
- Hands-on experience designing functional test fixtures and test protocols
- Strong mechanical and pneumatic fixturing and assembly-aid design
- Comfort with ambiguity: you've built repeatable production around designs that were still evolving, and you apply context rather than impose a rigid system
- Sound judgment, flexibility, and the ability to explain the "why" behind process decisions
- Able to work on-site in Redwood Shores
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