Product Engineer, Manufacturing

Responsibilities

• Build quality control as software: generate inspection and test plans, first-article inspections, and factory acceptance test procedures per asset from design revision; verify results against spec automatically, enforce hold points, and open nonconformance reports with evidence on failure.
• Ship a self-replanning factory schedule: derive work orders, sequencing, and kitting from demand and BOM; track live throughput and yield per line and integrator; recompute and flag delivery impact on test failures or shipment slips.
• Score third-party integrators continuously on defect density, first-pass test rate, and corrective-action speed to drive qualification, load balancing, and awards.
• Close the corrective-action loop: trace defects from commissioning or field back to design revision, factory, and bench; automatically incorporate fixes into next run's inspection plan.
• Embed with modular design engineers, quality managers, and factory operators in factories and at integrator facilities; model BOM lineage, test history, revision, and acceptance evidence in a graph to answer "can we ship it" via query.

Requirements

• Shipped production code in Go, Python, or TypeScript; able to pick up whatever language the problem demands.
• Built real features on LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-weight models), MCP servers, and agentic frameworks.
• Work daily with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor; able to get agents doing useful work autonomously.
• Identify problems, design solutions, and ship without waiting for direction or approval.
• Moved fast under deadline while leaving extensible foundations for other engineers.
• Sat with non-technical domain experts, turned their judgment into working systems, and drove adoption on a production line.
• Product taste demonstrated in shipped interfaces that feel obvious to floor users and workflows that match real work.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with MES or PLM systems.
• Knowledge of inspection and test plans, factory acceptance testing.
• Experience with NCR and corrective-action workflows.
• BOM management.
• Scheduling and optimization problems.

Compensation & Benefits

• Cash compensation range: $150,000 - $275,000 (final offers may vary based on geography, experience, expertise, licenses, and other factors).
• Outstanding candidates may receive adjusted terms plus meaningful equity.
• Competitive total compensation (cash + equity).
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement plan.
• Generous PTO policy.
• Commitment to pay equity and transparency.