Senior Manufacturing Engineer

The role

Senior Manufacturing Engineers turn robotic automation concepts into production-ready manufacturing systems. You will design fixtures, tooling, mechatronic equipment, and manufacturing processes to automate the assembly of data center racks and related hardware.

What you will do

• Design fixtures, tooling, mechanisms, and mechatronic equipment for robotic assembly of data center racks and related hardware.
• Develop innovative concepts to automate manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Make engineering tradeoffs and deliver hardware against customer and production schedules.
• Develop automated processes and equipment for fiber-optic cable assembly, routing, handling, and cable management.
• Design mechanical components and assemblies including machined, sheet metal, plastic, and 3D printed parts.
• Develop manufacturing processes, production flows, and work instructions for new and automated production lines.
• Work with robotics, controls, electrical, and software engineers to integrate mechanical equipment into robotic systems.
• Work with customers to translate requirements into engineering solutions.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, robotics, and manufacturing issues during development and production ramp.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience designing and launching high-volume hardware products and manufacturing processes.
• Strong hands-on mechanical design experience with production hardware, tooling, fixtures, or automation equipment.
• Experience working with manufacturing teams to take designs from prototype through production ramp.

Nice to have

• Hands-on mechanical or mechatronics engineer who likes to design, build, test, and debug hardware.
• Understand how data center racks, servers, cable systems, and related hardware are designed and assembled.
• Strong mechanical design skills and experience with mechanisms, motors, actuators, sensors, plastics, machined parts, sheet metal, and cable management.
• Understand robotic systems and design for automation, including fixtures, tooling, end effectors, and the practical requirements for reliable robotic assembly.
• Can look at a manual manufacturing operation and develop creative, practical ways to automate it.
• Have experience taking manufacturing equipment or processes from concept through production deployment.
• Thrive in a startup environment where priorities move quickly, schedules are aggressive, and engineers are expected to take ownership and get hardware working.
• Can communicate directly with customers and turn loosely defined manufacturing problems into working hardware and production processes.

About the company

Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems that increase the speed and capacity of buildout, starting with data centers.