Senior Manufacturing Engineer at SF hardware startup miniaturizing lab-grade spectroscopy

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Job Title

Senior Manufacturing Engineer - NPI

Salary

Not Disclosed

Company Description

San Francisco hardware startup miniaturizing lab-grade spectroscopy into field-deployable embedded sensors

Job Description

You will lead the transition of validated sensor prototypes into high-volume production for industrial and datacenter infrastructure. As the bridge between engineering and the global supply chain, you'll establish production architecture, manage specialized vendors, and optimize designs for manufacturability to protect the world's most expensive machines from catastrophic failure.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

Lead a ground-up manufacturing build for two breakthrough platforms, Scout and Sentry, moving from dozens to thousands of units in a fast-paced "type-two fun" environment.
Work on cutting-edge hardware that delivers PPM-level trace analysis in real-time, solving critical failure prediction problems that humans and legacy systems currently cannot detect.
Join a tightly knit team of 20 elite builders and industry veterans where you'll have meaningful equity and direct influence on the company’s production scaling strategy.

What You Will Do

Optimize complex electro-mechanical designs using DFM/DFA methodologies to improve cost-efficiency, yield, and assembly speed without compromising performance.
Build and manage a global supply chain network, auditing and negotiating with machine shops, PCB assembly houses, and high-volume contract manufacturers.
Establish and oversee initial in-house assembly lines to validate processes and author comprehensive SOPs before scaling operations to external manufacturing partners.

The ideal candidate

Extensive NPI experience successfully transitioning complex hardware from prototype to mass production, ideally within the industrial sensor or high-precision electronics space.
Proven track record in vendor management and supply chain mitigation, with the ability to source alternative components and enforce strict quality specifications under tight deadlines.
High mechanical aptitude with advanced SolidWorks proficiency to collaborate directly with mechanical engineers on critical design modifications for production readiness.

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