Senior Manufacturing Engineer

The role

This individual contributor will own manufacturing engineering for parts as they come off the design team. You will design processes, tooling, and production to turn weekly-changing designs into repeatable builds.

What you will do

• Design, document, and stabilize production processes
• Deliver early DFM feedback to design engineering
• Manage design-to-manufacturing handoffs
• Create functional end-to-end test fixtures and protocols
• Design jigs, fixtures, and assembly aids
• Own equipment and workstations from specification through installation
• Model station layout, line balance, and capacity
• Build manufacturing backbone including work instructions and documentation
• Maintain cycle time and first-pass yield as volume doubles

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, or a related engineering field
• 3+ years in manufacturing engineering
• Track record of launching assembly line processes, equipment, and/or new products
• Demonstrated process development experience
• Strong DFM fundamentals
• Experience taking electromechanical or mechatronic products from prototype into production
• Experience designing functional test fixtures and test protocols
• Proficiency in CAD for fixture, tooling, and workstation design
• Able to work on-site in Redwood Shores

Nice to have

• Have run electronics assembly integration and in-line functional test
• Have worked in high-mix, rapid-iteration environments where the design was still moving
• Know standard process documentation practice — PFMEA, control plans, DOE, SPC
• Are strong on GD&T and tolerance analysis for mechanical parts
• Have specified, sourced, and bought off production equipment with outside vendors
• Have managed suppliers and incoming quality for outsourced parts (3D-printed, laser-cut, PCB/PCBA)
• Have stood up quality, yield, inspection, or documentation systems from scratch
• Have applied Lean or structured continuous improvement to a real line

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered
• Unlimited PTO
• Equity
• Office food and beverages (minimum 2x catered lunches and dinners a week)

About the company

WindBorne is an atypical hardware company that sells the data its balloons produce. The company pushes design changes to flying hardware roughly once a week while scaling production.