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The Role

We're looking for a hands-on Production Engineer (Electrical Design & DFX) who owns cables, harnesses, and the electrical package from the first prototype through volume production — and who makes sure that work is never the thing slowing Engineering down.

This role reports to the Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a dotted line to Hardware Engineering.

The role works in two phases. While a robot is in development, you're embedded with Hardware Engineering: building cables and harnesses, being meticulous about the CAD and the routing, selecting components and connectors, and ordering boards and parts so the EEs can keep designing. When the robot goes through NPI or an ECO, you move with it into Manufacturing: releasing drawings, supporting ordering, and clearing electrical issues on the floor. You are inline with the design as it happens, not a review gate after it's done.

This is not an advisory role. You open the CAD, you make the drawings, you build the first article, and you get it released. You'll spend most of your days with the hardware team, so fit with that group matters as much as the skill set.

What You'll Do

• Build alongside Engineering

  • Build cables and harnesses for robots in development, and keep the harness CAD, run lengths, and routing exact as the design evolves
  • Select components and connectors with the EEs, and own board and part ordering so prototypes and pilot builds are never waiting on parts
  • Find and qualify alternate components when parts go long-lead or end-of-life

  Take prototypes to production

  • Own the electrical side of NPI and ECO transfer into Manufacturing for new robots and major revisions
  • Turn discrete-wire prototypes into designed, documented cable harness assemblies with full BOMs, drawings, and work instructions
  • Apply DFM, DFA, DFT, and DFS to the electrical package so it can be built fast, tested easily, and serviced in the field
  • Release designs through our ECO process and keep revision control clean between CAD, ION (our MES/PLM), and the floor

  Design the electrical package

  • Electronic packaging: enclosure and control-box layout, board mounting, thermal and clearance considerations, and grounding and bonding
  • Cable routing and management through moving axes, arms, and grippers — bend radii, drag chains, strain relief, abrasion protection, and service loops
  • Connector selection and standardization: quick connects, keyed and latching connectors, mate/demate life, and sealing where needed
  • Bundling decisions that account for power, signal, and communication segregation, EMI/noise, and shielding

  Fix the supply side

  • Cut the harness drawing-to-part cycle from roughly two months today to under 30 days, and eliminate off-BOM cables
  • Work with Supply Chain to source harness houses and connector suppliers, review supplier drawings, and qualify first articles
  • Support PCBA layout reviews for manufacturability with Hardware Engineering and fab houses

  Make it stick on the floor

  • Build first articles and pilot builds with your own hands, then hand off clean documentation to Production
  • Train technicians on harness assembly and electrical installation standards
  • Feed field and line failures (connector damage, chafe, intermittents) back into design and close them out permanently
  • Travel to customer sites when an electrical issue needs eyes on the robot

Requirements

The Person