Staff Manufacturing Engineer

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

The Staff Engineer, Manufacturing systems and Standards defines how manufacturing equipment is specified, developed, managed, and sustained across the company’s global manufacturing network. The role harmonizes best practices across business units, establishes governance to sustain alignment. It is a high-influence technical role that delivers through cross-functional collaboration rather than direct execution ownership.

Requirements

Typically 12+ years of relevant engineering experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, consistent with Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical (individual contributor) expectations; advancement based on demonstrated scope and impact.
Background in manufacturing engineering, operations, or a related technical field; experience in automation, industrialization, or equipment development, ideally in a regulated or high-reliability environment, is beneficial.
Demonstrated success developing, implementing, or governing manufacturing standards across multiple products, sites, or business units.
Strong understanding of manufacturing equipment lifecycle management, including requirements development, qualification, deployment, sustainment, transfers, and upgrades.
Ability to solve challenging, multi-disciplinary problems and to influence technical direction and decisions across the organization without direct authority.
Demonstrated ability to build alignment among diverse stakeholders and drive enterprise-level decisions.
Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
Practical experience applying industry standards and accepted practices within manufacturing environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Experience supporting global manufacturing networks or multi-site production environments.
Experience with enterprise asset lifecycle management (EAM), CMMS platforms, maintenance programs, spare parts management, or asset governance processes.
Familiarity with industrial automation, controls architectures, robotics, and manufacturing equipment deployment.
Experience working with equipment suppliers, machine integrators, and contract manufacturing partners.
Prior experience establishing or operating governance models for engineering or manufacturing standards.
Familiarity with PLM, PLC, or comparable platforms used as a system of record for engineering and manufacturing standards.

Responsibilities

Identify, harvest, and consolidate existing manufacturing standards, guidance, and best practices across business units, applying an align, standardize, govern, and sustain approach.
Develop and maintain enterprise manufacturing equipment and process standards, leveraging industry standards including safety and design regulations where applicable (e.g., automation, controls and PLCs, robotics, vision systems, precision joining processes).
Align and document equipment lifecycle best practices, from requirements and URS through qualification, spares, transfers, and sustainment.
Serve as the DRI for Equipment standards, owning business requirements, governance, adoption, and value realization
Establish and operate a governance model covering ownership, review cadence, and cross-business-unit alignment, using the organization’s designated engineering system of record.
Prioritize standardization efforts based on business impact, readiness, and global manufacturing needs, in partnership with business units and domain owners.