Manufacturing Engineer - Design & Optimize Production Lines

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Fluidstack is building advanced manufacturing lines for modular production and ramp planning in San Francisco, CA. The role focuses on designing production lines, modeling capacity, and engineering ramp plans to achieve target output with efficient ergonomics and flow.

The candidate should have a track record designing lines, validating takt and capacity under noise, and using simulation or math to locate bottlenecks before they seize the project.

Qualifications

• Designed manufacturing lines or major line extensions that are built.
• Takt and capacity models matched reality within noise.
• Used simulation or rigorous math to identify bottlenecks before they found you.
• Designed for the operators: ergonomics, presentation, and flow.
• Defended a layout decision with data and changed it when the data said to.
• Bonus: Discrete event simulation, heavy product lines, greenfield factory design, lean and TPS grounding.

Responsibilities

• Design the production lines: layouts, station counts, and takt math for module fabrication and assembly.
• Model capacity honestly: bottlenecks, buffers, and the real output curve under variation.
• Engineer the ramp plans: how each line gets from first unit to rate, with the constraints named.
• Redesign as the product evolves: new configurations absorbed without rebuilding the factory.

Skills

Line design

Capacity modeling

Takt planning

Simulation

Ergonomics

Data-driven decisions

Factory design

Greenfield factory design

Tools

Discrete event simulation

TPS/Lean

Job description

Fluidstack is building advanced manufacturing lines for modular production and ramp planning in San Francisco, CA. The role focuses on designing production lines, modeling capacity, and engineering ramp plans to achieve target output with efficient ergonomics and flow.

The candidate should have a track record designing lines, validating takt and capacity under noise, and using simulation or math to locate bottlenecks before they seize the project.