Head of Manufacturing Engineering - Robotics Scale-Up

TAR; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewables, with a senior leadership role in San Francisco. TAR builds robotics to install proprietary racking at gigawatt scale, expanding from prototype to production across multiple programs.

The Head of Manufacturing Engineering leads the function company-wide, defining standards, capital planning, and a scalable organizational structure to enable high-volume, austere-environment manufacturing across all

Qualifications

• 10+ years in manufacturing engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience scaling manufacturing across multiple product lines or sites.
• Track record owning capital equipment planning and budgets.
• Built and led teams of manufacturing engineers and leads.
• Deep manufacturing knowledge: DFM, tooling, process development, quality systems.
• Excellent communication with executives, customers, and investors.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global manufacturing engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Build and lead the manufacturing engineering organization and growth.
• Own capital equipment and capacity planning for scale-up across programs.
• Set standards, quality systems, and documentation practices for all lines.
• Own supplier and contract manufacturer strategy at the org level.
• Establish root-cause and continuous-improvement processes across lines.
• Serve on the leadership team guiding investments and timelines.
• Represent manufacturing engineering externally to customers and partners.

Skills

Leadership

Scaling across lines

Capital equipment planning

Team building & people management

DFM & tooling expertise

Strong communication

Job description

TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewables, with a senior leadership role in San Francisco. TAR builds robotics to install proprietary racking at gigawatt scale, expanding from prototype to production across multiple programs.

The Head of Manufacturing Engineering leads the function company-wide, defining standards, capital planning, and a scalable organizational structure to enable high-volume, austere-environment manufacturing across all