Electronics Manufacturing Engineer

Standard Bots; City of Glen Cove (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Bots in Glen Cove, NY is seeking an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer who bridges design and production to ensure PCB assemblies are manufacturable, reliable, and cost-effective. You will review layouts, footprints, and fabrication packages before release and own SMT/PCBA processes on our in-house line or with contract manufacturers.

This role drives DFM/DFA feedback, establishes test coverage, improves yield, and coordinates NPI handoffs from prototype to volume production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years in electronics/PCBA manufacturing engineering with hands-on SMT experience.
• Proven DFM/DFA expertise with real PCB design feedback and shipped boards.

Responsibilities

• DFM/DFA reviews of PCBA designs and release packages with clear feedback.
• Own SMT/PCBA process engineering, reflow, paste, placement, AOI, and rework.

Skills

DFM/DFA review

SMT process control

PCB design review

DFT awareness

IPC standards

DFM tooling

Test & measurement

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering

Associate's in EET

Tools

Valor

CAM350

Allegro DFM

Job description

About Standard Bots

Standard Bots builds next-generation robotics for manufacturing affordable, capable, American-made automation. Our hardware is a tightly integrated electromechanical system, and we build it in-house at our Glen Cove, NY facility. The electronics inside our robots, the PCBAs that drive motion, sensing, and control are core IP, and how well they're designed for manufacturing directly determines our yield, our cost, and how fast we can scale.

Role

We're looking for an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer who lives at the intersection of design and production. You'll be the person who makes sure the boards our electrical engineers design can actually be built, reliably, at yield, at cost; whether they run on our in-house SMT line or get handed to a contract manufacturer.

This is a blend of two jobs. On the DFM side, you're the manufacturing conscience in the room during PCB design: reviewing layouts and packages before they're released, catching issues and errors early, and holding the line on the standards that keep boards manufacturable. On the process side, you own the SMT/PCBA process itself - bring-up, process control, yield, and the day-to-day of getting good boards out the door. You're as comfortable marking up a fabrication package as you are standing at the reflow oven diagnosing a solder defect.

The right person is opinionated and constructive. When an EE hands you a design that's going to cause tombstoning, unroutable rework, or a package no CM will accept, you say so early, clearly, and with the fix and you make the standard stick so the same issue doesn't come back.

What you'll own

• DFM review of PCB designs. Review PCBA layouts, footprints, stack-ups, and fabrication/assembly packages before release — including stack-up and controlled-impedance manufacturability. Give clear, specific DFM/DFA and design-for-test (DFT) feedback to electrical engineers; call out issues, errors, and rule violations, and drive them to resolution before the design goes to build.
• DFM automation and checking. Run systematic, rule-based DFM/DFA checks with automated tooling (Valor, CAM350, Allegro DFM, or equivalent) so reviews are consistent and repeatable rather than eyeballed and keep the rule decks current as parts, processes, and vendors change.
• Design for test (DFT). Partner with electrical engineering to build test coverage and access into designs from the start; test points, probe access, and ICT/flying-probe/boundary-scan considerations so boards are testable, not just able to be assembled.
• Manufacturing best practices. Own and uphold the DFM rule set; component spacing, courtyards and keep-outs, panelization, fiducials, thermal relief, testability, and land-pattern standards (IPC-7351 / IPC-2221 / IPC-A-610 class). Keep the standards documented and current, and make sure designs actually conform.
• Package quality and CM readiness. Ensure every output package; Gerbers, fab and assembly drawings, BOM, pick-and-place, and stack-up is complete, unambiguous, and manufacturable by whoever builds it, internal line or external CM. You are the gate a package clears before it's released.
• SMT line and process. Own SMT/PCBA process engineering for the in-house line; stencil and paste, placement, reflow profiling, SPI and AOI, and rework. Drive process control, first-pass yield, and defect reduction; own changeovers and new-board bring-up.
• Board bring-up and test. Bring up, verify, and debug boards on the bench; fluent with oscilloscopes, multimeters, and lab instruments. Run the tests the hardware team specifies, and define test procedures on your own; help stand up automated/functional test (ATE) as we scale production.
• NPI and design-to-production handoff. Partner with electrical engineering through NPI; from first prototype builds to repeatable volume, closing the loop fast between design intent and what's actually buildable on the floor.
• Engineering‑production liaison. Be the connective tissue between electrical engineering and the production floor, translating design intent into build‑and test‑ready instructions and feeding real yield, defect, and test data back to design, keeping the loop between design and the floor tight and open.
• CM partnership. Serve as the manufacturing‑engineering interface to external contract manufacturers: qualify processes, resolve DFM findings, review first articles, and hold CMs to our quality bar.
• Continuous improvement. Root cause solder and assembly defects (8D/5-Whys), cut scrap and rework, and feed lessons learned back into the DFM standards so the next design starts in a better place.

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate's or Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET), Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 4+ years in electronics/PCBA manufacturing engineering, with hands-on ownership of an SMT line and its process (paste, placement, reflow, AOI, rework).
• Demonstrated DFM/DFA expertise, reviewed real PCB designs, given feedback to EEs, and can point to boards that shipped better because problems were caught before release.
• Fluency with IPC standards (IPC-A-610, IPC-7351, IPC-2221, J-STD-001) and the vocabulary to hold a design review to them.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics, PCB layouts, fabrication and assembly drawings, BOMs, stack-ups and to spot what's wrong or missing in a release package.
• Hands-on command of the SMT process: reflow profiling, stencil/paste, placement, SPI/AOI, and rework; comfortable diagnosing tombstoning, bridging, voiding, head-in-pillow and similar defects.
• Hands-on with DFM-check tooling (Valor, CAM350, Allegro DFM, or equivalent) and ability to run rule-based checks against layout and fab/assembly data, not just visual reviews.
• Design-for-test (DFT) fluency; design in test coverage and access and review boards for testability (test points, ICT/flying-probe/boundary-scan), not just assembly.
• Hands-on electrical test and measurement; oscilloscopes, multimeters, and bench instruments, able both to run tests defined by the hardware team and to define test procedures.
• Experience preparing and reviewing manufacturing output packages