Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer
Contract Duration: W2, 5 months
Location: Redmond, WA
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Pay Range: $90-100/hour
***Note: No C2C arrangements possible for this role
Summary
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Manufacturing Engineer to join our team, whose mission is to design, build, and test prototype systems for future consumer VR and AR experiences. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience in driving development of novel manufacturing processes from concept to pilot-production to deliver reliable, high performance hardware prototypes. The development of state-of-the-art processes and prototypes will require the intersection of novel materials, mechanical, electrical, and software fields. The successful candidate will possess experience with a wide variety of manufacturing processes, be comfortable driving a team of engineers to rapidly develop and scale novel manufacturing processes, and have the ability to work with a team of researchers with tolerance for a high degree of ambiguity.
Responsibilities
- Drive Manufacturing Engineering team, system integration activities, and DFx in a cross-functional work environment to deliver reliable, high performance hardware prototypes
- Scale state-of-the-art hardware prototypes from concept to pilot-production volumes
- Grow in-house manufacturing capabilities and manage external manufacturing partnerships
- Raise the bar for manufacturing excellence and best practices by developing, and continuously improving, processes and relationships which empower researchers and design engineers to build increasingly complex systems
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS degree in the fields of Mechanical engineering, Process Engineering,
- Manufacturing Engineering or related area, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience scaling processes to pilot-production or mass manufacture, and implementing quality control procedures to resolve processing problems
- Experience with a wide variety of manufacturing techniques for soft wearable devices, including textiles, polymer processing, electromechanical integration, lamination, and adhesive bonding
- Experience designing and implementing process development plans, design of experiments (DOE), establishing critical process parameters and quality control strategies
- Project management skills with experience directing priorities to a cross-functional team to meet schedule milestones and stakeholder requirements
Desired Qualifications
- 8+ years working on high-volume consumer products
- Experience with design and/or production of wearable technologies
- Experience with mass production of systems requiring multiple manufacturing processes such as: soft goods cutting, laminating, and kitting; active optical alignment, casting, molding, machining, electronics packaging, coatings, additive manufacturing
- Experience in the domain of design for manufacturing, assembly, or reliability
- Experience with CAD, such as SolidWorks or related programs
Must Have Skills
- Technical documentation – a major output will be requirements and retrospective documents (in addition to delivery of the functional prototypes)
- Project management – will be working with a small team to execute prototype builds
- Deals well with ambiguity – as a research org we are learning as we go so comfort with a constant level of ambiguity is helpful
Nice to Have Skills
- NX – CAD package
- NPI/NTI development