Join a high-growth technology startup

View open opportunities at our portfolio companies
80
companies
182
Jobs

Expert Industrialization Engineer

Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on May 30, 2024
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots,is looking to hire an Expert Industrialization Engineer. Reporting to the Industrialization Manager, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the design, architecture, and implementation of our current robotic systems, and help shape future versions of our general-purpose robots.
The best candidates for this role have excellent skills in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA), and hands-on experience with optimizing robotics components for large-scale manufacturing. You’ll be a valued contributor as you bridge the gap between R&D and mass production, ensuring product designs are cost-effective, manufacturable, and scalable. You will also collaborate with other team members to create, integrate, and scale the world’s most capable anthropomorphic robotic systems.

Our Success Criteria

  • Design Adaptation for Manufacturability: Apply DFM and DFA principles to existing designs to reduce manufacturing complexity, enhance reliability, and improve cost-effectiveness without compromising product quality or performance. Analyze and redesign components and assemblies for mass production, selecting suitable materials and proposing changes to enhance manufacturability. Collaborate with R&D engineers to modify designs to suit production requirements better.
  • Production Transition Management: Manage the transition of robotics products from prototype stages to full-scale production, ensuring designs are fully validated and ready for manufacturing. Coordinate the design and development of tooling, jigs, and fixtures required for manufacturing the redesigned components. Oversee the validation process of redesigned components through prototyping and testing, ensuring they meet all operational requirements.
  • Project Coordination and Communication: Act as the technical liaison between R&D, engineering teams, and the production facility to ensure clear communication and understanding of manufacturing capabilities and constraints. Monitor the progress of projects focused on the industrialization of new products, maintaining schedules, and ensuring deliverables are met on time. Maintain detailed documentation of design changes, test results, and manufacturing process adjustments. Provide regular updates to key stakeholders on project status and milestones.
  • Quality Assurance and Compliance: Ensure all redesigned components adhere to the necessary quality standards and comply with industry regulations. Gather feedback from manufacturing and quality assurance teams to further refine product designs and processes.
  • Supplier Collaboration: Work with suppliers and Contract Manufacturers to ensure materials and component purchases meet the technical specifications of redesigned parts. Coordinate with the supply chain team to ensure the availability and timely delivery of materials suited for the redesigned components.
  • Your Experience
    Qualifications
  • Diploma/Degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, engineering physics, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in applying DFM and DFA principles.
  • Experience designing complex moving mechanical assemblies.
  • Experience with engineering for reliability.
  • Proven track record of working through the complete life cycle of building and manufacturing high-performance electromechanical assemblies.
  • Skills
  • Familiarity with all stages of the manufacturing process, engineering drawings, tolerancing, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to complete specification and analysis of gears, actuators, bearings, etc.
  • Knowledge of designing automated manufacturing machines and assembly tools.
  • Proficiency in prototyping, robotics, mechatronics, machining, and 3D printing.
  • Ability to read and understand manufacturing documentation, drawings, and GD&T.
  • Experience coordinating with suppliers to ensure material and component quality and timely delivery.
  • Experience interacting with Tier 1 Contract Manufacturers.
  • Traits
  • A consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems.
  • Optimistic listening and conflict resolution capabilities.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority.
  • Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity.
  • Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues.
  • Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines.
Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Compensation and Benefits
Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary AI team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.