Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Production Systems — Robotics

Cobot; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Collaborative Robotics is seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Production Systems to design and launch the in-house production system for our robots at the Santa Clara headquarters.

You will own the production line from a blank sheet through stable, repeatable operation, architecting processes, fixtures, and controls while collaborating with hardware engineers and build technicians to optimize design and assembly.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of manufacturing/process/production engineering for electromechanical hardware.
• Direct experience standing up a new production line or NPI process, ideally at low-to-mid volume with active product iteration.
• Demonstrated fixture/jig design judgment, knowing what to design and what to buy.
• Fluency with DFM/DFA principles and influencing engineering design decisions.
• Experience with data analysis and metrics for production lines.
• Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team.
• Willing to occasionally travel.
• Must have and maintain US work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Architect the end-to-end build sequence and work instructions for the production line, starting from a hardware design with no prior production history.
• Define the fixture design philosophy for the line.
• Serve as the primary link between the build floor and hardware design, flagging hard-to-build decisions and driving specific alternatives to closure.
• Run process FMEA on new and changed build steps to get ahead of likely failure modes before they become chronic.
• Build the root-cause and defect-closure system, instrument how issues get discovered, root-caused and closed.
• Define the metrics infrastructure, run time studies, identify bottleneck stations, and instrument the line to produce real cycle time, first-pass yield, and scrap data.

Skills

9+ years experience

DFM/DFA principles

Data analysis

Strong communication

Willing to travel

Tools

CAD proficiency

3D printing

Laser cutting

Fixture design

Job description

Collaborative Robotics is seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Production Systems to design and launch the in-house production system for our robots at the Santa Clara headquarters.

You will own the production line from a blank sheet through stable, repeatable operation, architecting processes, fixtures, and controls while collaborating with hardware engineers and build technicians to optimize design and assembly.