Manufacturing Engineer

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing our manufacturing value chain for a specific set of products. This challenging position requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience in manufacturing processes. You'll be responsible for ensuring our production capabilities meet scale demands, evaluating make-vs-buy decisions, and continuously improving our manufacturing processes. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and shape the future of our production systems.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the manufacturing value chain for a certain set of products both technical and commercial operations; ensuring the capability to produce at needed scale.
• Evaluate, plan, and prioritize long-term and short-term supply chain, production and test optimizations to ensure capability and reliability of value stream to meet business production output goals & business objectives.
• Effectively develop and communicate business cases to support vertical integration or value stream diversification opportunities where strategic supply partnerships will accelerate the scalability of production output and product development.
• Continuously evaluate make vs buy decisions for sub-assemblies in the value stream; break the system down into logical subassemblies and process flows resulting in a clear approach to maximize total cost of ownership and production capability & reliability (lead time & flexibility).
• Work with contract manufacturers within the critical product value stream to develop and execute repeatable, sustained processes for quick-turn development as well as at-scale production and testing.
• Be on site at current and future operations partners managing technical and commercial needs for the value stream, solve ongoing production issues, improve capacity and evaluating potential partners.
• Work with technicians and other engineers (SMEs) hands-on, building prototype and production product and supporting hardware for internal and external use.
• Create documentation required for successfully manufacturing hardware at scale.
• Reduce complexity: commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalization.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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• Degree in a technical field such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, math, or a hard science.
• 5+ years of Operations experience in areas: Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Strategic Sourcing or in design of electromechanical hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment.
• Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.) Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus.
• A genuine interest in Operations and thirst for driving improvements.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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• Experience in the assembly and test of precision mechanisms.
• Exposure to ISO 9001/AS 9100 quality systems.
• Demonstrated familiarity with optical system integration and test.

US Salary Range

$100,000—$150,000 USD