Manufacturing Engineer, Line Design & Takt

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

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, people farmed or starved. Technology has given people more time for the things they want to do, rather than the things they have to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built – but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI that do not share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, often taking on scope outside the core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. Drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. Put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Role Scope

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don’t fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• Designed manufacturing lines or major line extensions that are built.
• Takt and capacity models matched reality within noise.
• Used simulation or rigorous math to find the bottleneck before it 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.

Benefits

Compensation Range: $203K - $232K

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.