Power Electronics Manufacturing Lead — Inverter Ramp

Joby Aviation; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Joby Aviation is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineering Lead in San Carlos, CA to ramp the EPU Inverter to high-rate production. You will own end-to-end manufacturing, lead equipment projects, and scale power electronics assembly with the Powertrain & Electronics ME team.

You’ll drive debottlenecks, mentor staff, and partner across Design, Quality, and Equipment to deliver a robust manufacturing system. This builder role demands precision, fast decisions, and a bias for action.

Qualifications

• Hands-on manufacturing engineering leadership with floor experience.
• Proven track record taking products from concept to pilot line to high-rate production.
• Experience with PFMEA, control plans, capability studies.
• Strong GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, fastening and fits.
• Experience with power electronics, electric motor assembly, or complex electro-mechanical assembly including tooling/fixtures/test equipment.
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.
• Detail-oriented with data-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own EPU Inverter manufacturing end-to-end — in-house assembly and test, plus scale-up with manufacturing partners.
• Drive equipment projects with internal teams and external suppliers — specs, builds, buy-offs, and installs.
• Ramp line capacity to hit rate and program milestones — debottleneck, balance stations, and prove out throughput.
• Build the processes that make a fast team faster — clear interfaces with design, quality, and supply chain; no bureaucracy for its own sake.
• Report line readiness to leadership with data, not hand-waving.
• Mentor your direct team and influence efficiency across the broader org — lead by example, raise the bar everywhere you touch.
• Partner with Design on DFM and EC R s, with Quality on first-pass yield and defect reduction, and with the Equipment team on readiness milestones.
• Set clear deliverables, dates, and owners for the manufacturing team — and hold the line on the mOwn the tooling and equipment budget — build it, pressure-test it, and track spend against capability and rate.
• Launch the next-gen Inverter using the best proven manufacturing technologies and methods available — and put a power electronics platform into the air that no one has built before.

Skills

Power electronics experience

GD&T

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Mechanical fundamentals

Problem-solving

Data-driven decisions

Education

BS in Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

PFMEA

Control plans

Capability studies

Job description

Joby Aviation is seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineering Lead in San Carlos, CA to ramp the EPU Inverter to high-rate production. You will own end-to-end manufacturing, lead equipment projects, and scale power electronics assembly with the Powertrain & Electronics ME team.

You’ll drive debottlenecks, mentor staff, and partner across Design, Quality, and Equipment to deliver a robust manufacturing system. This builder role demands precision, fast decisions, and a bias for action.