Manufacturing Engineer
About The Position
We build drones at scale. We're looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to own how they actually get made. You will decide how each assembly is built: the fixture, the joint, the torque spec, the test that proves it good. Then you'll prove those decisions out with data before they carry production volume. This is a floor-first role. You'll spend your days next to the line, not above it. When a station goes down, you're the first call. When a defect keeps coming back, you root-cause it and kill it for good. When the design fights the build, you push manufacturability back upstream into the design until it doesn't fight back. You are the first point of contact for engineering decisions on hardware moving through your processes, and the last line of defense between a bad process and a thousand bad units. If you'd rather solve problems at the station with a caliper and a laptop than watch them from a conference room, this is your role.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or a related engineering field
- 2+ years as a manufacturing, process, or industrial engineer in a hardware production environment
- Hands-on line support experience; comfortable being the first call when things break
- Proven root cause skills with examples of corrective actions driven to verified closure
- Strong floor presence; communicates clearly with technicians, executives, and product engineers
Nice To Haves
- Fixture and tooling design experience, with CAD proficiency (SolidWorks or similar)
- Electronics or electromechanical assembly experience
- Experience taking a product from NPI through DVT/PVT into sustained production
- High-mix, high-cadence manufacturing where the design changes regularly
- Familiarity with factory automation, machine vision, robotics, or custom equipment
- Working knowledge of lean fundamentals: cycle & takt time, line balancing, 5S
- Experience creating and maintaining work orders, process plans, and mBOMs in MES/ERP
- Understanding of how to create a PFMEA and turn it into a quality verification plan
- Startup or high-growth background; experience scaling output or standing up new lines
Responsibilities
- First technical responder for line-down and slowdown events; diagnose, contain, restore
- Troubleshoot tooling, fixtures, jigs, and station equipment issues
- Distinguish process problems from training problems from design problems, and drive fixes accordingly
- Support production supervisors with real-time technical calls during the shift
- Own work instructions and standard work for assigned stations; keep them accurate and current
- Drive cycle time reduction, line balancing, and station-level improvements with production
- Design, build, and iterate fixtures and tooling to improve repeatability and speed
- Validate and release process changes through proper change control (ECR/ECO)
- Qualify new and changed processes against clear acceptance criteria: first article, capability studies
- Lead root cause analysis on recurring defects and escapes; drive corrective actions to verified closure
- Partner with quality on FPY improvement, defect containment, and disposition
- Translate failure data into process or tooling fixes, not just retraining
- NPI builds: process planning, station setup, first article support
- Feed producibility and DFM input back to design engineering before release
- Define and own station-level KPIs (yield, cycle time, downtime, scrap); use them to prioritize and drive measurable improvement
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
