Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Pegel; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunia is building a new kind of materials company where discovery is driven by tightly coupled experimentation, automation, and AI. As Manufacturing Systems Engineer, you will design and scale systems that move materials from lab validation to repeatable, industrial production, focusing on reliability, learnability, and iteration.

You will develop end-to-end processes, define equipment needs and throughput models, and work across R&D and manufacturing to ensure robust, repeatable operations

Qualifications

• Degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years experience designing or scaling manufacturing or process systems in industrial or deep-tech environments.
• Strong systems-level thinking across process, equipment, and data.
• Experience working across R&D and manufacturing boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end, scalable manufacturing systems for lab-to-industrial scale.
• Bridge discovery and manufacturing by translating experimental workflows into scalable processes.
• Build manufacturing readiness with documentation, controls, and quality frameworks.
• Embed data and learning into manufacturing with feedback loops to AI models.

Skills

Systems thinking

Communication

Ownership

Education

Degree in mechanical engineering

Job description

Your mission

Design and scale manufacturing systems for AI-native materials discovery

Dunia is building a new kind of materials company, where discovery is driven by tightly coupled experimentation, automation, and AI. As our materials move from discovery toward scale, manufacturing systems must be designed not just for output, but for learning, reliability, and iteration.

As Manufacturing Systems Engineer, you will design and build the systems, processes, and flows that allow Dunia’s materials platforms to scale from lab-level validation to repeatable, industrially relevant production. You will think in systems: processes, equipment, data, controls, and people.

This role exists to ensure that scale does not break what makes Dunia so fast.

Your tasks will include:

Design scalable manufacturing systems

• Design end-to-end manufacturing processes for materials and devices transitioning out of R&D
• Define process flows, equipment requirements, and throughput models
• Ensure systems are robust, repeatable, and designed for iteration

Bridge discovery and manufacturing

• Work closely with research, automation, and AI teams to translate experimental workflows into scalable processes
• Identify where lab-scale assumptions break at higher throughput
• Ensure manufacturing constraints inform upstream discovery decisions

Build manufacturing readiness

• Develop process documentation, control strategies, and quality frameworks
• Support facility layout, equipment integration, and commissioning
• Anticipate scale-up risks and address them early

Embed data and learning into manufacturing

• Design systems that generate high-quality process and performance data
• Enable feedback loops between manufacturing, experimentation, and AI models
• Treat manufacturing as a learning system, not a static endpoint

Your profile

• Degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturingengineeringor a related field
• 5+year's experiencedesigning or scaling manufacturing or process systems in industrial or deep-tech environments
• Strong systems-level thinking across process, equipment, and data
• Experience working across R&D and manufacturing boundaries
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Clear communicator with a bias toward execution and ownership
• English fluency; additional languages desirable