Manufacturing Engineer

What we're doing isn't easy. But nothing worth doing ever is.

We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. We build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic human environments. Join our mission-driven, venture-backed team as we build out our customer-facing operations arm.

Diligent Robotics is searching for a Manufacturing Engineer to support execution and development of our manufacturing operations. As a Manufacturing Engineer you will support the team by assisting in build and test operations; ensuring the bill of materials and procedures are up to date; and identify and capitalize on improvement opportunities with respect to process, quality, and capacity. 

 The ideal candidate is self driven, passionate, and has experience supporting and developing complex electromechanical assembly operations. They also have a strong track record of working cross functionally for process development and optimization. This person thrives in a fast paced development environment and has the ability to make rapid decisions. You can deal with ambiguous situations, remove obstacles and own driving projects to completion and issues to root cause resolution. 

Responsibilities:

• Assist in robot production, test, and troubleshooting
• Work closely with the design engineers for design for manufacturing (DFM) feedback
• Create work instructions for in-house fabrication of electromechanical assemblies, final integration, and systematic acceptance tests
• Adopt and tailor manufacturing and quality standards from automotive, aerospace, and medical industries to meet appropriate level of scope for a hospital-assistant robot
• Resolve non-conformances found in the production process and disposition deviations with rationale acceptable for deployment
• Develop production floor per appropriate clean room, ESD, and 5S guidelines
• Optimize and automate fabrication, assembly, and test processes
• Ship completed robots to hospitals with full confidence in the as-built reliability of the hardware

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field
• Minimum 5 years manufacturing experience in consumer electronics, automotive, medical device, semiconductor capital equipment, or aerospace industries
• Cycle time reduction
• Excellence at creating work instructions for technicians
• Strong experience in test and validation of complex electromechanical systems
• Experience with a quality management system
• Familiarity with grounding, bonding, shielding, and ESD practices
• Knowledge of torque tools and secondary retention techniques
• Extremely organized
• Proven track record of pragmatic manufacturing of complex systems resulting in a quality product

Nice to Have

• Outsourcing Experience
• Familiarity with FMEA’s, Cpk’s, Pareto Charts, Process Optimization, and other Six Sigma tools
• Experience with 5S, Kanban, and other Lean Manufacturing techniques
• Scripting and database experience a plus
• Knowledge of different plastic manufacturing techniques (injection molding, vacuum forming, rotational molding, etc.) and their pros/cons
• Network of key manufacturing resources to build a robot supply chain at volume
• Six Sigma Certification