Gradientrobotics
Manufacturing Engineer
San Francisco
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Full-Stack DevelopmentFusion 360GD&TRoboticsCAM
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About the role
- This is intentionally a hands-on founding role.
- This is a role for someone who loves turning drawings into precision parts: you'll see a difficult geometry, figure out the fixturing and toolpaths to nail it, and share what you learned so the next part comes out faster.
- The impact is significant: you'll keep the in-house shop on critical-path work and turn parts around in hours instead of weeks, while making sure nothing blocks the engineering team from iterating.
Responsibilities
- Own the machine shop: operate and maintain our metal manufacturing equipment, including the drill press, CNC router, CNC mill, sheet metal brake, and band saw
- Own CAM and workholding: run Fusion 360, design fixturing and soft jaws, and hold aerospace-style tolerances on aluminum and steel parts
- Be an extension of the engineering team: give design feedback that improves DFM and DFA, and help engineers design parts that are faster and cheaper to make
- Own outsourced machining: manage external vendors for harder geometries (roughly 2-week lead times) so the in-house shop stays focused on critical-path work
- Build repeatable processes so common parts run without rework, and document setups, fixtures, and tooling so nothing needs to be figured out twice
- Relentless finisher: nothing you own leaves the shop out of spec, no part goes missing, no deadline slips quietly
- Systems-minded: your instinct after making something twice is to fixture it, template it, or document it
- You'll touch nearly every part we build, which means real ownership and room to grow quickly.
Requirements
- Experience with metrology (CMM, height gauge, etc.) and GD&T
Nice to have
- Experience at a hardware, robotics, or aerospace company
- Experience managing outside machine shops and vendor relationships
- multi-axis a plus)
- Hands-on CNC machining experience (3-axis minimum
Company info
- The datacenter buildout is the largest industrial project in human history.
- Gradient builds the autonomous robots that make it possible.
- Partnered with the world's largest AI infrastructure companies and backed by the industry's best investors, we move fast and build full-stack systems that matter.
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