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Manufacturing Research Engineer

Meta· Hardware
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Redmond, WA$173k - $245kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Role focused on developing novel manufacturing processes and scaling them from research to pilot production for high-performing hardware prototypes within Reality Labs Research.

Responsibilities

  • Lead manufacturing development activities across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performing hardware prototypes
  • Provide design-for-manufacturability, assembly, and test feedback to research scientists and engineers to improve the manufacturing feasibility of novel technologies
  • Set manufacturing technical direction across multiple concurrent research programs, defining and executing the process maturation path that scales state-of-the-art components and prototypes from early feasibility to pilot-production volumes
  • Grow in-house manufacturing capabilities and manage external manufacturing partnerships
  • Raise the bar for manufacturing excellence and best practices by developing, and continuously improving, processes and relationships which empower researchers and design engineers to build increasingly complex systems

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, other relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience scaling hardware technologies from early-stage feasibility to pilot-production or mass manufacture
  • Experience developing high-volume consumer products with stringent size, weight, power, and cost constraints in wearables, robotics, or similar
  • Experience designing and implementing process development plans, design of experiments (DOE), critical process parameters, and quality control strategies
  • Experience defining hardware build and supply chain plans, and managing external manufacturing vendors to meet program schedule and quality requirements

Skills

Required:Manufacturing development leadershipDesign for manufacturabilityProcess maturation and scalingVendor management & external partnershipsProcess development and DOESupply chain planning
Nice to have:CAD (NX or similar)

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits as listed in posting
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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