# Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $203k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** manufacturing engineering, weldment production, pfmea, work instructions, cycle time reduction, fixture design, welding processes, CAD, tekla, takt production
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Own manufacturing engineering for heavy chassis fabrication and weldment production at Fluidstack, developing process plans, launching lines, running PFMEAs, and driving yield/cycle time improvements for AI data center infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own manufacturing engineering for chassis fabrication: the processes turning steel into module frames at takt.
- Develop the process plans: routings, work instructions, fixtures, and cycle times for weld-heavy fabrication.
- Launch new lines and product revisions: PFMEAs, capability runs, and ramp curves you own.
- Drive yield and cost: scrap, rework, and cycle time attacked with data weekly.

## Requirements
- You've been the manufacturing engineer for heavy fabrication or weldment production.
- You've launched fabrication lines or major process changes to rate.
- You write work instructions operators actually use.
- You run PFMEAs that predict the real failures.
- You've cut cycle time on a process everyone said was optimized.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Welding process depth.
- Fixture design.
- Tekla or CAD fluency.
- Takt-based production systems.

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