Senior Manufacturing Engineer

POSTION DESCRIPTION As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will lead cross-functional teams to bring complex robotic and electromechanical systems into production. You will connect R&D, systems engineering, quality, supply chain, test, and manufacturing to establish robust production processes and deliver systems that are safe, reliable, manufacturable, serviceable, and cost-effective. This role is ideal for an engineering leader experienced in robotics or complex electromechanical products, integrated assembly and test, manufacturing transfer, defect management, statistical process control, and continuous improvement. • Lead cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams. • Translate customer and system requirements into quality, reliability, safety, and manufacturing-readiness plans. • Bridge R&D and manufacturing to transfer scalable robotic products and processes from prototypes through pilot production, validation, ramp-up, and sustaining operations. • Establish risk-management strategies using defect tracking, root-cause analysis, FMEA, control plans, verification, validation, reliability testing, and corrective action. • Define and monitor manufacturing metrics such as defect escape, uptime, yield, process capability, throughput, cycle time, scrap, rework, and cost. • Apply statistical process control and process-capability methods across assembly, calibration, test, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. • Develop and qualify assembly processes, production equipment, tooling, fixtures, gauges, calibration stations, and end-of-line test systems. • Lead system-integration investigations and resolve field, supplier, or manufacturing failures. • Qualify manufacturing sites and suppliers for process capability and quality. • Drive manufacturability, assembly, calibration, testability, reliability, serviceability, and cost decisions across robotic subsystems. • Manage program priorities, budgets, technical risks, and stakeholder communication. • Support on-site work in the Seattle metro area and travel to manufacturing locations as needed. QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor's or master's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems, Industrial, or Quality Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. • 8+ years of experience in manufacturing, hardware quality, new product introduction, process engineering, or operations, including technical leadership. • Casting and Injection Molding knowledge and experience. • Experience leading multidisciplinary or distributed engineering teams and transferring robotic or complex electromechanical systems into production. • Strong understanding of actuators, transmissions, sensors, electronics, batteries, wiring, structures, and safety systems. • Demonstrated ability to use structured quality and problem-solving methods to improve manufacturing performance and reduce field and safety risk. • Experience developing and qualifying assembly, calibration, tolerance analysis, integration, inspection, and end-of-line test processes and equipment. • Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, DFM/DFA/DFT, FMEA, control plans, traceability, configuration control, Lean manufacturing, and structured problem solving. • Strong communication, analytical, organizational, program-management, and technical tradeoff skills. • Positive, client-focused leadership style and a commitment to ethical conduct. PLUSES TO HAVE • Ability to perform structural and thermal Finite Element Analyses (FEA) • Experience launching a robotic product family or manufacturing platform at commercial scale. • Experience in mobile, industrial, humanoid, warehouse, autonomous, or collaborative robotics. • Knowledge of robotics functional safety, machinery safety, and battery safety practices. • Experience with accelerated life testing, environmental testing, fault injection, fleet-failure analysis, or hardware-in-the-loop testing. • PMP, ASQ, Lean Six Sigma, functional-safety, or related certification. • Consulting experience or demonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar robotic architectures and manufacturing systems. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS • Salary range: $150K - $175K, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications • Excellent Healthcare plan (Medical, Dental, and Vision) fully paid for by the company for the employee; partial payment for dependents • 401(k) plan with company match • Long-term and short-term disability, AD&D and Life Insurance • Paid maternity/new parent leave • 11 Paid holidays • 3 weeks of paid time off (PTO) per year, increasing after 2, 5, and 9 years of service Job location is in the Seattle, WA metro region at a Simplexity client site.