Robotics Manufacturing Lead: Scale from Pilot to Production

Genesis AI; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis AI is seeking a manufacturing leader to take a complex electromechanical robot from engineering builds to volume production at our California facility. You will design the production process, lead engineers and technicians, and own the quality gate that decides when a unit ships.

Across the phase from prototype to rate, you will plan capacity, specify fixtures and tooling, and document procedures so a partner's floor can match our yield.

Qualifications

• You have taken a complex electromechanical product from prototype through pilot to volume and designed the process yourself, not inherited it.
• Robots, vehicles, drones, medical devices, industrial equipment all count.
• You have transferred a process to a contract manufacturer and held them to your standard.
• Strong manufacturing engineering foundation: time studies, line balancing, capacity planning, fixture and tooling design, test strategy, PFMEA and control plans, lean and continuous improvement; CAD and GD&T fluency.
• You have hired and trained technicians, written certification criteria, and know that trained people are the real constraint on throughput.
• You have run a quality gate and held it under schedule pressure.
• You are on the floor every day and rigorous in the data.
• 8 or more years in manufacturing engineering or production, with time in a mature organization so you know what good looks like at scale, and 3 or more years leading people.
• Bonus: actuators, gearboxes or precision assemblies; PLM, MES and ERP implementation; product safety certification processes.

Responsibilities

• Design the production process: layout and cycle time, line balancing, station and fixture design, end-of-line test and calibration, material flow.
• Capacity planning: stations, equipment, people and hours by build phase, from the first units to rate, and the plan to add capacity ahead of demand.
• Specify, source and commission fixtures, tooling and test equipment: requirements, RFQ with Supply Chain, acceptance at the vendor and on the floor.
• Own process documentation under revision control: work instructions with photos and video, PFMEA, control plans, inspection plans, SOPs; keep the manufacturing BOM aligned with the engineering BOM and run engineering changes through to the floor.
• Run the transfer from engineering builds to production: pilot builds, DFM and DFA feedback with the authority to push back, build readiness reviews at each phase gate, release to volume.
• Package the process so it can be copied: one documented set of stations, fixtures, test, instructions and training that a partner's floor can run to the same yield as ours.
• Build and lead the team: manufacturing engineers, test engineers and technicians; hiring pace, training and certification, trainer capacity, shift structure as volume grows.
• Own the quality gate: first-pass yield, defect capture, root cause (8D, SPC, DOE where it earns its keep), closed-loop feedback to engineering and suppliers; nothing ships that quality has not passed.
• Partner with Supply Chain on clear-to-build so no unit starts without a complete kit, and with the manufacturing partner so their team runs our process to our standard.
• Stand up the systems as we grow: traceability by serial, MES-lite at first, then the real thing; the weekly numbers (yield, hours per unit, cost per unit, downtime, schedule adherence) and the readout to leadership.

Skills

Time studies

Line balancing

Capacity planning

Fixture design

Tooling design

Test strategy

PFMEA

Control plans

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

CAD

GD&T

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

PLM

MES

ERP

Job description

Genesis AI is seeking a manufacturing leader to take a complex electromechanical robot from engineering builds to volume production at our California facility. You will design the production process, lead engineers and technicians, and own the quality gate that decides when a unit ships.

Across the phase from prototype to rate, you will plan capacity, specify fixtures and tooling, and document procedures so a partner's floor can match our yield.