Senior Manufacturing Engineer - DoorDash Air

The role

You will build the process and tooling for an autonomous food delivery platform assembly line. You will work on the shop floor and with suppliers to solve manufacturing problems and scale production.

What you will do

• Be the first manufacturing engineer for the first mass-production drone assembly line
• Apply Design for Assembly principles with hardware and electrical engineering
• Own Process FMEA development to mitigate failure modes
• Design and iterate on factory layout, workstations, and material flow
• Specify, source, design, and qualify assembly tooling, fixtures, and jigs
• Partner with design, supply chain, internal production, and CMs to troubleshoot build issues
• Create manufacturing processes, Manufacturing Bill of Materials, and work instructions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering field
• 5+ years of manufacturing/mechanical engineering experience
• Hands-on experience applying Design for Assembly (DFA) / Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles
• Experience authoring and driving Process FMEA (PFMEA)
• Experience with factory/line layout design
• Experience specifying, designing, and/or sourcing assembly tooling, fixtures, and jigs
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, supply chain, and production
• Familiarity with aerospace structures and electronic systems integration (composites, electro-mechanical sub-assemblies, PCBAs)
• Able to travel up to 20% of the time

Nice to have

• experience in high-volume electromechanical, aerospace, robotics, or consumer hardware production

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off
• paid sick leave
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance
• mental health program

About the company

DoorDash Labs is the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team aims to create technologies that support and augment human networks.