Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Integration / Assembly

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX seeks a manufacturing engineer to own integration and assembly of modular systems. You will design and optimize the assembly line, establish sequencing, torque/testing standards, and balance lines to meet takt. You will drive ECO-to-floor changes while aggressively improving ramp metrics and yield.

The role emphasizes hands-on line presence during launches, standardizing work instructions, and leveraging MES systems in a high‑mix, high‑volume environment.

Qualifications

• Engineered assembly operations for large, complex products such as modules or vehicles.
• Balanced lines and designed stations to hit takt.
• Launched products through ECO storms and maintained floor readiness.
• Standardized work instructions and torque specs as single source of truth.
• Live on the line during launch to ensure smooth ramp-up.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing engineering for integration and assembly of modules.
• Build the assembly process: station design, sequence, torque and test standards, line balance.
• Launch new module configurations without breaking the line (ECO to floor).
• Improve ramp curve metrics: hours per unit down, first-pass yield up, week over week.

Skills

Assembly engineering

Line balancing

ECO processes

SOPs & torque specs

MES systems

Lean manufacturing

Tools

MES systems

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had 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 who don’t 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 your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We 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. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Role Scope

• Own manufacturing engineering for integration and assembly: mechanical, electrical, and controls fit‑out of modules at takt.
• Build the assembly process: station design, sequence, torque and test standards, and line balance.
• Launch new module configurations without breaking the line: change management from ECO to floor.
• Attack the ramp curve: hours per unit down and first‑pass yield up, week over week.

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.
• You've engineered assembly operations for large, complex products: modules, vehicles, equipment, or skids.
• You've balanced lines and designed stations that hit takt.
• You've launched products through ECO storms and kept the floor building.
• You standardize: your work instructions and torque specs are the single source of truth.
• You live on the line during launch.
• Bonus: Low‑volume, high‑mix assembly. Electrical and controls assembly processes. MES systems. Lean production depth.

Compensation Range: $203K - $232K

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.