Hardware, Manufacturing Engineer

The role

You will build production capability to grow data collection. You will own manufacturing readiness and scale from development builds to repeatable production.

What you will do

• Develop production readiness and capacity plans with suppliers.
• Build and qualify fixtures, calibration equipment, and production tests.
• Use yield, cycle-time, and failure data to find production constraints.
• Improve designs for manufacturing.
• Establish repair, rework, and requalification processes.
• Guide suppliers through technical reviews, process qualification, and changes.

Required qualifications

• Track record of personally leading electronic hardware into production.
• Experience taking electronic hardware, sensors, or wearable products from development builds into production.
• Hands-on skills in assembly process development, fixture design, production testing, and factory troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of process qualification, measurement repeatability, statistical process control, and supplier quality.
• Ability to connect manufacturing variation to physical defects and changes in product performance.
• Experience working with engineers and suppliers to document processes.
• Ability to travel frequently to Shenzhen.

Nice to have

• Experience with flexible circuits, textiles, adhesives, sensor calibration, or repair operations.

Before you apply

• We may use AI-assisted tools to help evaluate applications against the requirements of this role.

About the company

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. They design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows.