Vital Lyfe
Manufacturing Engineer
Los Angeles - Greater Area
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Process ImprovementProcurementSolidWorksRoboticsProblem SolvingLean Manufacturing
About the role
- About Vital Lyfe Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation - creating a new category of personal water-making technology built to scale where infrastructure can't.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and optimize manufacturing processes and production lines for our desalination systems-from first builds through high-rate production.
- Lead DFM/DFA initiatives: tooling, fixtures, robot end-effectors, conveyors, automation programming, control systems.
- Develop work instructions, process flows, layout designs
- implement and validate manufacturing methods for new systems.
- Own continuous-improvement efforts: reduce cost, increase throughput, improve reliability and uptime in a fast-moving hardware startup environment.
- Collaborate with procurement, quality, test, integration teams and external vendors/suppliers to ensure smooth scale-up & ramp-out of manufacturing.
- Strong CAD (SolidWorks / other) experience and familiarity with manufacturing automation, tooling & fixture design.
- Hands-on mindset: comfortable designing the process and also working with operators & equipment to validate and refine.
- Develop work instructions, process flows, layout designs; implement and validate manufacturing methods for new systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial or equivalent).
- 2+ years professional experience in manufacturing engineering, process development or production optimization (including internships).
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to operate in ambiguous/higher-growth environment, clear communicator across teams.
- Experience in consumer hardware production, or systems with high-volume manufacturing.
- Knowledge of pumps, valves, pressure vessels, fluid systems or broadly mechanical-hardware manufacturing.
- Experience with automation programming, conveyors, robotics, fluid/pressure equipment.
- Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical process control (SPC).
- Experience in a hardware startup or mission-driven organization.
Benefits
- Build long-term career equity as we grow
Company info
- About Vital Lyfe
- Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation - creating a new category of personal water-making technology built to scale where infrastructure can't.
- What We're Looking For
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