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Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (Robot Production)

Genesis· Manufacturing
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Bay AreaFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Manufacturing engineer leading the transfer of Genesis general-purpose robots from engineering builds to production, designing production processes, coordinating with partners, and building the team to scale volume production.

Responsibilities

  • Design the production process: layout and cycle time, line balancing, station and fixture design, end-of-line test and calibration, material flow.
  • Capacity planning: stations, equipment, people and hours by build phase, from first units to rate, and planning capacity ahead of demand.
  • Specify, source and commission fixtures, tooling and test equipment: requirements, RFQ with Supply Chain, acceptance at vendor and on the floor.
  • Own process documentation under revision control: work instructions with photos and video, PFMEA, control plans, inspection plans, SOPs; keep manufacturing BOM aligned with engineering BOM and run engineering changes through to the floor.
  • Run the transfer from engineering builds to production: pilot builds, DFM and DFA feedback with authority to push back, build readiness reviews at each phase gate, release to volume.
  • Package the process so it can be copied: one documented set of stations, fixtures, test, instructions and training for a partner's floor to achieve same yield.
  • Build and lead the team: manufacturing engineers, test engineers and technicians; hiring pace, training and certification, trainer capacity, shift structure as volume grows.
  • Own the quality gate: first-pass yield, defect capture, root cause analysis (8D, SPC, DOE), closed-loop feedback to engineering and suppliers; nothing ships that quality has not passed.
  • Partner with Supply Chain on clear-to-build so no unit starts without a complete kit, and with the manufacturing partner so their team runs our process to our standard.
  • Stand up the systems as we grow: traceability by serial, MES-lite then full MES, weekly metrics (yield, hours per unit, cost per unit, downtime, schedule adherence) and leadership readout.

Qualifications

  • 8 or more years in manufacturing engineering or production, with time in a mature organization to know what good looks like at scale
  • 3 or more years leading people
  • Experience taking a complex electromechanical product from prototype through pilot to volume and designing the process oneself
  • Experience transferring a process to a contract manufacturer and holding them to your standard
  • Strong foundation in time studies, line balancing, capacity planning, fixture and tooling design, test strategy, PFMEA and control plans, lean and continuous improvement; CAD and GD&T fluency
  • Experience hiring and training technicians, writing certification criteria
  • Experience running a quality gate under schedule pressure
  • On-the-floor rigor with data-driven approach
  • Bonus: actuators, gearboxes or precision assemblies; PLM, MES and ERP implementation; product safety certification processes

Skills

Required:Production process designCapacity planningDocumentation and PFMEAQuality managementLeadership and team buildingTransfer to contract manufacturing

Benefits

  • Not specified in the provided description
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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We are a new generation of robotics builders, united by a shared mission to push the boundaries of physical AI.

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