# 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:** discrete event simulation, lean manufacturing, tps, takt time calculation, capacity modeling, bottleneck analysis, production line design, ergonomics, factory layout, ramp planning
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Design and optimize manufacturing production lines for AI data center module fabrication and assembly, including takt math, capacity modeling, bottleneck identification, and ramp plans that scale with evolving product designs.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Design the production lines: layouts, station counts, and takt math for module fabrication and assembly.
- Model capacity honestly: bottlenecks, buffers, and the real output curve under variation.
- Engineer the ramp plans: how each line gets from first unit to rate, with the constraints named.
- Redesign as the product evolves: new configurations absorbed without rebuilding the factory.

## Requirements
- You've designed manufacturing lines or major line extensions that got built.
- Your takt and capacity models matched reality within noise.
- You've used simulation or rigorous math to find the bottleneck before it found you.
- You design for the operators: ergonomics, presentation, and flow.
- You defend a layout decision with data and change it when the data says to.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Discrete event simulation.
- Heavy product lines.
- Greenfield factory design.
- Lean and TPS grounding.

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