Manufacturing & Process Engineer

About Standard Bots

Standard Bots is Americas largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Full-stack robotshardware software and AIall designed and assembled in Glen Cove New York. The company makes AI-native robots anyone can buy and deploy with customers ranging from family-owned machine shops to the Fortune 500. Customers include Sunoco Lockheed Martin NASA and the U.S. Army along with hundreds of manufacturers nationwide. Standard Bots raised a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation from RoboStrategy General Catalyst Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Samsung Next.

About the role

Youll own how Standard Bots robots get built from the first process design to the last improvement on the production floor. Our factory is in Glen Cove NY and youll be on it every day so the fixture you design or the fix you make today shows up on the line tomorrow morning. The discipline we build now will define the quality and cost of every robot we ship and youll help set it.

This is an individual contributor role for an engineer who wants real ownership early. Youll report to the Manufacturing & Process Engineering Manager and work closely with product mechanical engineering quality and production. As production scales so will your scope.

Location

Youll work on-site at our factory in Glen Cove NY five days a week.

What youll do

- Sit in DFM/DFA reviews with product and mechanical engineering and bring concrete feedback on assemblability tolerances and cost not vague opinions.

- Design build and validate the fixtures tooling and workstations used for robot assembly and test.

- Own the process flow for your assigned assemblies and support NPI as new products move from prototype to production.

- Spot automation opportunities in assembly test and material handling then build the case for the ones actually worth doing.

- Drive measurable gains in yield cycle time and first-pass quality on the stations and lines you own.

- Run root cause analysis on defects and nonconformances put corrective actions in place and verify they hold.

- Contribute to PFMEAs and control plans and feed what you learn on the floor back into them.

- Use time studies capacity analysis and lean tools (5S/6S standard work value stream mapping) to cut waste.

- Write and maintain the work instructions routings and BOM accuracy for your processes.

- Track process metrics (capability yield cycle time) and report them weekly.

What youll bring

- 35 years in manufacturing or process engineering in a hardware production environment.

- A bachelors degree in Mechanical Industrial Manufacturing or a related engineering field.

- Hands-on production-level experience with DFM/DFA fixture design and process documentation.

- CAD proficiency (SolidWorks Onshape or similar) for fixture and tooling design.

- Working knowledge of root cause analysis and lean or continuous improvement methods.

- At least one quality or throughput improvement you scoped delivered and can put a number on.

- Comfort on the shop floor every day in a place where the playbook is still being written.

Nice to have

- Background in robotics automation hardware or complex electromechanical assembly.

- Exposure to scaling from low-volume prototype to higher-volume production.

- Experience with PFMEA control plans or SPC.

- Exposure to sheet metal machined components PCB assembly or mixed-process manufacturing.

- Familiarity with MES ERP or manufacturing data systems.

- Basic scripting or data analysis skills (Python SQL or advanced Excel).

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $150000 - $180000 depending on experience. We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role and will build compensation packages that are commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance life insurance disability insurance and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

Required Experience:

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