Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (Robot Production)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bay Area
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- You have taken a complex electromechanical product from prototype through pilot to volume and designed the process yourself, not inherited it. Robots, vehicles, drones, medical devices, industrial equ
- You have transferred a process to a contract manufacturer and held them to your standard.
- Strong manufacturing engineering foundation: time studies, line balancing, capacity planning, fixture and tooling design, test strategy, PFMEA and control plans, lean and continuous improvement; CAD a
- You have hired and trained technicians, written certification criteria, and know that trained people are the real constraint on throughput.
- You have run a quality gate and held it under schedule pressure.
- You are on the floor every day and rigorous in the data.
- 8 or more years in manufacturing engineering or production, with time in a mature organization so you know what good looks like at scale, and 3 or more years leading people.
- Bonus: actuators, gearboxes or precision assemblies; PLM, MES and ERP implementation; product safety certification processes.
Full description
About Genesis
We are a full-stack general-purpose robot company, born across San Francisco and Paris and bound by a single mission: to make general-purpose robots a reality, unlocking infinite physical labor for the world and freeing people for creativity, exploration, and the pursuits they love for their own sake.
We are French and American by birth and global by nature. We are backed by partners who share our vision, including Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, and HSG, alongside Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, and Vladlen Koltun. Our people work across the Bay Area and Europe, building the engine that will teach robots to do real work in the real world. We recently unveiled Eno, our wheeled, dexterous robot powered by our GENE foundation model, and we are starting to put it to work with real customers.
The role
We build general-purpose robots, and next year we start building them in volume. You will be the manufacturing engineer who takes the robot from engineering builds to production. Our CA facility is where new products are introduced: the process is designed, the first stations are built and proven, and the technicians are trained there. Volume production runs with a manufacturing partner, on their floor or on ours with their people, and you own the process in both cases. You design how the robot gets built, you lead the engineers and technicians who prove it, and you own the quality gate that decides when a unit leaves.
This is hands-on work. You design the first station, write the first work instruction, and bring the partner's team up to our standard. What exists today: an engineering build process with our design team, a production partner, a bill of materials and a plan. What does not exist yet is the production process, and that is the job.
What you'll do
- Design the production process: layout and cycle time, line balancing, station and fixture design, end-of-line test and calibration, material flow.
- Capacity planning: stations, equipment, people and hours by build phase, from the first units to rate, and the plan to add capacity ahead of demand.
- Specify, source and commission fixtures, tooling and test equipment: requirements, RFQ with Supply Chain, acceptance at the vendor and on the floor.
- Own process documentation under revision control: work instructions with photos and video, PFMEA, control plans, inspection plans, SOPs; keep the manufacturing BOM aligned with the engineering BOM and run engineering changes through to the floor.
- Run the transfer from engineering builds to production: pilot builds, DFM and DFA feedback with the authority to push back, build readiness reviews at each phase gate, release to volume.
- Package the process so it can be copied: one documented set of stations, fixtures, test, instructions and training that a partner's floor can run to the same yield as ours.