Zipline
Industrial Engineer
$104K–$170K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations engineering, production systems, or a comparable environment; 5–7 years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Designs and improves factory layouts, work methods, capacity models, and production systems to scale manufacturing reliably.
What you'll do
- Design factory layouts, standard work, labor models, and balanced production lines.
- Analyze capacity, constraints, and investment scenarios; implement improvements to throughput, utilization, lead time, and cost.
- Develop factory KPIs and decision tools, partnering with Manufacturing, Production, Supply Chain, and Material Planning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong understanding of production-system design, capacity planning, line balancing, takt time, cycle-time analysis, standard work, and manufacturing flow.
- Experience performing time studies and translating observations into labor and capacity models; designing or improving manufacturing layouts and material-flow systems.
- Strong analytical, spreadsheet, and data-analysis skills, including building financial and operational models for CapEx, automation, make/buy, and factory-scaling decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling complex electromechanical products from NPI or low-rate to higher-volume manufacturing.
- Experience with production-system modeling, SQL, Python, BI tools, ERP/MES platforms, Lean concepts, or factory expansions.
Pay
$104,000 - $170,000 USD starting cash range
Tools
ERP, MES, SQL, Python, BI tools
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