WindBorne Systems
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
$120K–$200K
Redwood City, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in manufacturing engineering; posting says it is considering a range of backgrounds and experience levels.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, or a related engineering field.
About the job
Own manufacturing engineering for changing mechatronic hardware designs, creating repeatable production processes, tooling, tests, and documentation as production scales.
What you'll do
- Develop, document, and stabilize manufacturing processes; provide DFM feedback and manage design-to-manufacturing handoffs.
- Design functional test fixtures and protocols, plus jigs, fixtures, and assembly aids for electronics and mechanical assembly.
- Specify and ramp equipment and workstations, model line layout and capacity, and build production documentation and change practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, or a related engineering field.
- 3+ years in manufacturing engineering, with a track record of launching assembly line processes, equipment, and/or new products.
- Demonstrated process development experience; strong DFM fundamentals in partnership with design engineering.
- Experience taking electromechanical or mechatronic products from prototype into production, including electronics assembly and functional test; experience designing functional test fixtures and test protocols; proficiency in CAD for fixture, tooling, and workstation design; able to work on-site in Redwood Shores.
Nice to have
- Experience with electronics assembly integration and in-line functional test or high-mix, rapid-iteration environments where designs are still changing.
- Knowledge of PFMEA, control plans, DOE, SPC, GD&T, tolerance analysis, production equipment sourcing and buy-off, supplier and incoming quality, quality systems, or Lean.
Pay
$120,000 – $200,000 (base salary)
Tools
CAD, PFMEA, control plans, DOE, SPC, GD&T, 3D-printed, laser-cut, PCB/PCBA
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative