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Tulip

Senior Manufacturing Solutions Engineer

Designs, builds, and deploys custom manufacturing solutions on Tulip's no-code platform directly at customer sites, integrating with MES, ERP, PLCs, and shop-floor systems. Requires 8+ years in manufacturing tech with hands-on OT experience and 50% travel.

United StatesSolutions ArchitectureRemote8+ YOE
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About the role

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in manufacturing, industrial software, or manufacturing-focused technology roles, with 4+ years in customer-facing or consulting capacities
  • Hands-on experience with Operations Technology — MES, ERP, quality, or production systems — including architecture and implementation
  • Proven ability to integrate shop-floor systems and devices (PLCs, machine data, production context) in manufacturing environments
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, quality, traceability, and operational constraints; able to walk a shop floor and identify improvement opportunities independently
  • Track record of leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end in ambiguous, customer-facing environments
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites
  • BS in Engineering or equivalent experience

Key Responsibilities

Customer-Embedded Solution Delivery

  • Partner with plant-level and corporate stakeholders (operators, engineers, IT, quality, operations leadership) to design, build, and deploy Tulip solutions on-site
  • Integrate Tulip with shop-floor systems including PLCs, MES, ERP, and quality systems, working with machine data, events, and production context
  • Deploy solutions into live production environments with minimal disruption, troubleshooting issues that span software, data, and operational workflows

Technical Leadership

  • Serve as the technical authority during customer deployments, advising on architecture, scalability, security, and reliability in regulated or high-availability environments
  • Lead complex implementations end-to-end, communicating clearly with both technical and operations stakeholders
  • Document solutions and share learnings across the FDE team and broader Tulip organization

Product & Platform Feedback

  • Represent the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering, influencing roadmap and feature design
  • Help generalize customer-specific solutions into reusable product capabilities
  • Contribute to internal process development, best practices, and cross-team collaboration

Skills

MesERPPlcsTulip PlatformShop-Floor SystemsMachine DataManufacturing WorkflowsIntegrationsProduction Systems

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