Automation Engineering Lead

Joby Aviation•San Carlos, CA

7h•$168,000 - $251,100

About The Position

Joby Aviation is seeking a highly organized, passionate Automation Engineering Lead to join our powertrain and electronics team to step-change the safety, quality, quantity, and cost of our manufacturing production lines through automation. The role spans atoms and bits, setting the go-forward strategy and standards for physical and digital connected machines. The role leads teams of controls engineers, mechanical engineers, and high-skill build technicians. The ideal candidate knows automation engineering is a partner to manufacturing engineers, production staff, and the broader cross-functional team to the end of setting-up production technicians to succeed. Joby Aviation is made up of extremely talented, hardworking, proactive, and hands-on individuals operating in a very fast-paced and rewarding environment. Come help us build advanced powertrains and electronics as we transform the transportation industry.

Requirements

BS in Engineering or relevant field with 8+ years of experience.
Demonstrated experience professionally developing technical teams and setting those team members up to do their best work at high engagement.
Ability to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from concept through commissioning and deployment to manufacturing.
Extensive experience in software design, build, test, and deployment for robot, PLC, and cloud.

Nice To Haves

Mastery of ASME Y14.5-2018.
Experience with Kafka and MQTT.
Experience with Beckhoff PLC and Ignition industrial application platforms.
Experience with SolidWorks or equivalent CAD.

Responsibilities

Create a connected factory where humans focus on difficult value-add responsibilities and automation handles the balance.
Partner with manufacturing engineers to innovate manufacturing process automation.
Lead in-house architecture, detailed design, build, and commissioning of automation equipment for our most complex and novel manufacturing processes.
Partner with internal engineers and third-party equipment-building companies (integrators) to deliver fully-automated workstations and entire production lines.
Partner with the Factory Systems team to determine the software and data pipeline interface, go-forward architecture, and development priorities.
Lead controls engineers to design and deliver automated workstations that are connected to our web platforms via the Factory System team’s “kibana pipeline”.
Lead mechanical engineers who partner with manufacturing engineers to design and deliver manual, semi-automated, and fully automated manufacturing tooling and workstations.
Lead high-skill multi-disciplinary technicians to build complex electromechanical manual, semi-automated, and fully-automated manufacturing tooling and workstations in a constant feedback loop with the engineers.