TAR
Lead Manufacturing Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Odessa - Experience
- 5-7+ years in manufacturing engineering.
About the job
Own the buildout and scale-up of a manufacturing line that assembles, tests, and quality-checks TAR’s construction robotics hardware.
What you'll do
- Build and scale an assembly, quality-control, and manufacturing line from early low-rate production to repeatable higher-volume operations.
- Lead DFM, tooling and fixture qualification, quality processes, and root-cause and corrective action.
- Manage manufacturing vendors and develop standard work, documentation, training, and manufacturing capacity plans.
What they ask for
- 5-7+ years in manufacturing engineering, including standing up or scaling an assembly line for complex electromechanical or robotic hardware.
- Experience across DFM, tooling, process development, quality planning, and documentation.
- Hands-on hardware building or assembly, including machining, fabrication, wiring, and assembly.
- Experience implementing production quality control and root-cause/corrective action, plus managing suppliers and vendors.
Nice to have
- Experience manufacturing hardware for austere, field, or defense-adjacent environments, or experience with robotics or complex electromechanical systems.
- Familiarity with Lean/Six Sigma or formal quality systems such as ISO or AS9100; experience building a manufacturing team or line from near-zero.
Pay
Up to $15K (relocation bonus)
Tools
Lean/Six Sigma, ISO, AS9100
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