Tools and PLM Engineer

Mind Robotics • Palo Alto, CA

16h

About The Position

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting on the factory floor. The company is looking for people passionate about robotics, ownership, and solving difficult problems. The Tools and PLM Engineer will own the CAD and engineering tools used by hardware teams, serving as the resident expert for Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE while maintaining and updating the wider engineering toolchain. The role builds processes that move engineering data to manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and the rest of the company.

The engineer owns Mind’s engineering systems domain end to end, including 3DEXPERIENCE and the CAD, ECAD, simulation, and CAM toolchain. This includes platform administration, configuration, upgrades, licensing, and vendor relationships, as well as defining engineering data standards and the processes for release, change management, BOM structure, and the EBOM-to-MBOM handoff. The role also sets the engineering-systems roadmap, evaluates and rolls out tools and vendor functionality, trains teams, and improves workflows through scripts, templates, tools, and API integrations.

Requirements

• Track record of owning PLM and engineering tools for a hardware company where other teams relied on the data and processes managed.
• Advanced, hands-on expertise with CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE, including experience serving as the go-to CAD expert for an engineering team.
• Deep knowledge of release, change, and BOM management in CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Experience designing the flow of engineering data to manufacturing and supply chain, such as EBOM-to-MBOM handoff and ERP item and BOM transfer.
• Scripting experience in EKL, VBA, Python, C#, or similar, and experience building on APIs.
• Good judgment in prioritizing problems and choosing tools, including the ability to distinguish practical value from hype.
• Clear communication with engineers and leaders in manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, and patience as a trainer.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the expert on CAD tools, including 3DEXPERIENCE, and provide engineering support for modeling, assembly, data, performance, and licensing issues.
• Own the engineering systems domain, including 3DEXPERIENCE and the CAD, ECAD, simulation, and CAM toolchain; manage administration, configuration, upgrades, licenses, and vendors.
• Design processes and integrations that move released parts, BOMs, drawings, and changes from engineering to manufacturing, supply chain, and quality without manual re-entry.
• Define engineering data practices, including part numbering, release, change management, BOM structure, and the EBOM-to-MBOM handoff.
• Set the engineering-systems roadmap, prioritize problems, make tradeoffs across teams, and communicate decisions about what not to address.
• Evaluate new tools and functionality from Dassault Systèmes and other vendors; decide what to adopt, change, or retire and lead rollouts across teams.
• Establish CAD, data, and release standards for engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, and develop training to support adoption.
• Reduce repetitive CAD and PLM work using scripts, templates, tools, and API integrations, and turn recurring support issues into lasting fixes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed