Design Release Engineer, Modular R&D

Fluidstack

$110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in release or configuration management for serialized manufactured products.
  • Experience administering engineering change orders (ECOs) in active production.
  • Proficient in keeping BOMs synchronized across design, production, and maintenance phases.
  • Skilled in identifying and resolving incomplete documentation and specifications before production begins.
  • Able to manage and streamline the intricate as-designed vs. as-built processes in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communicator capable of collaborating across multiple disciplines and ensuring updates are timely and effective.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with PLM platforms and ERP/MES systems, as well as drawing standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end release process from engineering to production with accurate document approvals.
  • Manage configuration and change control, ensuring proper documentation for all in-flight units and parts.
  • Ensure BOM integrity across systems and resolve discrepancies proactively rather than reactively.
  • Confirm gate readiness by checking drawings, tolerances, and ensuring long-lead procurement issues are addressed before releases.
  • Facilitate clear communication of release schedules and change impacts between design, supply chain, quality, and production teams.

Benefits

  • Supportive team culture that encourages innovation and collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge modular data center technology.
  • Exposure to a fast-paced manufacturing environment with significant growth potential.
Full Job Description
The Modular Team

The Modular team designs and builds factory-produced, serialized data center modules that ship as manufactured products, not construction projects.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:
  • Turn first-of-a-kind modular data center designs into repeatable, serialized production builds without losing engineering intent between revisions.
  • Keep design iteration fast while units at different build states move through the fab floor, in inventory, and at site simultaneously.
  • Integrate power, cooling, and structural subsystems into a single releasable product definition that manufacturing, supply chain, and quality can all build against.
  • Close the loop between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations so field units can be serviced and upgraded against accurate records.
Role Scope
  • Own the release process from engineering to production: drawings, BOMs, and specs complete, approved, and released to manufacturing at the right revision, every time.
  • Run configuration and change management: administer ECOs and ECNs, control revision history, and disposition changes across in-flight units, inventory, and supplier orders with serialized modules at different build states.
  • Keep BOM integrity across systems: engineering and manufacturing BOMs accurate, the PLM system of record syncing cleanly to ERP and MES, and discrepancies between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained resolved rather than logged.
  • Gate release readiness: drawing checks, tolerance and spec completeness, long-lead procurement flags, and DFM feedback from the fab floor confirmed incorporated before anything releases.
  • Drive release communication across design, supply chain, quality, and production: publish release schedules and change impacts so procurement and the shop floor never build to stale revisions.
What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've owned release or configuration management for manufactured hardware: modules, vehicles, machinery, or similar serialized products.
  • You've administered ECOs across live production and know how to disposition a change across units already in build, sitting in inventory, and already shipped, including deciding effectivity and living with the consequences.
  • Your BOMs reconcile: as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained stay in sync because you keep them that way, not because nobody has checked.
  • You catch immature releases before the floor does: incomplete drawings, missing tolerances, and unspecified requirements don't get past you.
  • You've untangled an as-designed vs. as-built mess at a company scaling faster than its release discipline, and you know exactly what breaks when that discipline is missing.
  • You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls: design, supply chain, quality, and production all trust your revision state because you keep them informed before it matters.
  • Bonus: hands-on with PLM platforms (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill), ERP and MES integration (NetSuite, SAP, or similar), drawing standards (ASME Y14.5), or a manufacturing or quality engineering background.


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