Manufacturing Engineering Manager

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineering Manager with 7+ years of manufacturing or NPI engineering experience to own the move of Skild AI's electromechanical robotics hardware from prototype into repeatable production. You will take over from the previous lead, who set up the first assembly line, and become the main point of contact for our manufacturing plant as it grows. We need a hands-on lead who still does a lot of the work directly and can build both the manufacturing line and the operations team behind it. Design changes and processes are still being written, so this role suits someone who wants to build rather than maintain a mature, stable line. You'll inherit active builds and a small team, and you'll scale hardware that runs on one of the most ambitious AI platforms in robotics.

What will you be doing?

• Leading the assembly technicians and manufacturing engineers directly (currently 4 technicians, working with our supply chain manager), and growing the manufacturing operations team
• Owning build execution on the builds already in progress: sequencing around part availability, setting daily floor priorities and escalating when a build stalls
• Cutting build labor from the current 70–80 hours per unit through process and cycle-time improvements, fixturing and tooling across high-mix, high-complexity assembly
• Running new product introduction (NPI): taking new hardware platforms from engineering release through pilot builds into producible builds, and giving design specific, actionable manufacturability feedback
• Owning work instructions, build documentation and manufacturing systems (PLM/BOM), and keeping them accurate and under revision control as designs change