TAR
Head of Manufacturing Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role (Director, Head of, or VP level).
About the job
Leads TAR’s company-wide manufacturing engineering strategy and organization to scale construction robot production across multiple product lines.
What you'll do
- Set manufacturing engineering strategy, standards, quality systems, and continuous-improvement processes across robotics programs.
- Build and lead the manufacturing engineering organization, including hiring and developing engineers and leads.
- Own capacity, capital equipment, supplier, and contract manufacturer strategies for scaling production.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role building and running a manufacturing engineering organization.
- Experience scaling manufacturing engineering across multiple product lines, programs, or sites.
- Track record owning capital equipment planning and budgets for manufacturing scale-up, including strategic make-versus-buy and contract manufacturer decisions.
- Experience leading manufacturing engineers and engineering leads; expertise across DFM, tooling, process development, and quality systems.
Nice to have
- Experience manufacturing hardware for austere, field, or defense-adjacent environments.
- Familiarity with formal quality systems (ISO, AS9100) at an organizational level.
Pay
Up to $15K (currency not stated; relocation bonus)
Tools
DFM, ISO, AS9100
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