Apptronik
Manager, Manufacturing Engineering
Austin, TX +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
BK - Experience
- 7+ years of Manufacturing Engineering experience, including 2+ years of technical or people leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
About the job
Leads the Manufacturing Engineering team and industrializes complex hardware from early builds through repeatable, scaled production.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the team; direct manufacturing engineering support from prototype through production.
- Own manufacturing processes, tooling, production documentation, systems integration, and readiness for pilot builds and ramp.
- Improve yield and manufacturing performance, and lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
What they ask for
- Background in complex hardware manufacturing, NPI, process development, tooling, and production industrialization.
- Experience with MBOMs, BOPs, PLM, ERP, MES, and engineering change management; knowledge of DFM/DFA, PFMEA, SPC, DOE, process validation, and root-cause analysis.
- Demonstrated technical-team leadership and cross-functional accountability, prioritization, and delegation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
Nice to have
- Experience with high degree-of-freedom electromechanical assemblies, robotics, precision mechanisms, or actuation systems.
Tools
MBOMs, BOPs, PLM, ERP, MES, DFM/DFA, PFMEA, SPC
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