Gantri21mo ago

$140,000 – $190,000/yr

Senior Manufacturing Automation Engineer

United States·San LeandroFull-timesenior

OtherManufacturing Process EngineerManufacturing EngineerManufacturing & ProductionManufacturing Automation Engineer

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Overview

Gantri is not just another manufacturing firm; we are innovators at the heart of a movement to transform product manufacturing with sustainability and design at its core.

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Gantri is building the next generation of digital manufacturing for design-driven products.

We operate one of the world’s largest production 3D printing farms for consumer lighting and are transforming a highly manual manufacturing process into a scalable, process-driven advanced manufacturing platform.

Our factory combines additive manufacturing, advanced finishing, process engineering, automation, and software-driven operations.

You will identify opportunities where robotics, automated material handling, machine vision, equipment, and other manufacturing technologies can replace or augment manual processes. You'll work from the factory floor to understand the process, develop the technical requirements, evaluate potential solutions, work with equipment vendors and integrators, install and commission systems, train operators and technicians, and ultimately make sure the automation delivers measurable production results.

You will also own the manufacturing process improvements necessary to make automation successful. That means understanding the process before automating it, simplifying workflows, defining requirements and acceptance criteria, solving integration problems, and continuously improving systems once they are in production.

Identify high-value opportunities to automate manual production processes across printing, finishing, inspection, material handling, and fulfillment

Evaluate processes for automation readiness and determine where automation will meaningfully improve labor efficiency, throughput, quality, or safety

Develop technical requirements, system specifications, layouts, and acceptance criteria for new automation equipment

Evaluate and select robotics, conveyors, machine vision, material handling, and other production technologies

Work directly with automation vendors, integrators, and equipment suppliers from concept through installation and commissioning

Lead factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing to ensure systems meet technical and production requirements

Troubleshoot integration and production issues and drive vendors toward resolution

Establish standards and documentation for automation systems so they can be maintained and scaled

Take automation projects from initial concept through production deployment

Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, process validation, and production ramp

Work directly with operators, technicians, manufacturing engineers, and vendors on the factory floor

Develop SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and maintenance requirements for new automated systems

Measure automation performance against defined targets for throughput, quality, uptime, labor, and safety

Identify and eliminate failure modes that prevent automated equipment from operating reliably in production

Build a roadmap for scaling successful automation solutions across the factory

Understand existing manufacturing processes deeply enough to determine what should—and should not—be automated

Redesign processes and workflows to enable effective automation

Lead root cause analysis when automated systems or production processes fail

Run structured experiments and trials to validate process and equipment changes

Develop process controls and standards that ensure improvements persist after implementation

Analyze production data to validate that automation is delivering the expected results

Partner with Gantri's software and manufacturing teams to connect automated equipment to production systems

Translate physical factory workflows into clear equipment logic, requirements, edge cases, and acceptance criteria

Establish data collection and monitoring requirements for automated equipment

Use production data to identify bottlenecks, equipment failures, and opportunities for further automation

Build simple tracking and reporting to measure automation performance and ROI

Establish the technical standard for manufacturing automation at Gantri

Help define the factory's long-term automation architecture and roadmap

Evaluate emerging robotics and manufacturing technologies for potential application

Help prioritize automation investments based on production impact, technical feasibility, and cost

Raise the technical capabilities of engineers and technicians working alongside you

Build repeatable approaches for taking automation projects from concept to production

Above all, we're looking for someone who has actually put automation into a factory.

You should be comfortable standing on a production floor, looking at a manual process, and figuring out how to turn it into a reliable automated system. You don't need to have automated 3D printing before, but you need to understand manufacturing equipment, robotics, production processes, and what it takes to get an automated system working reliably in the real world.

5–10+ years of hands-on experience in manufacturing automation, robotics, controls, manufacturing engineering, or a closely related discipline

Proven experience taking automation or robotic equipment from concept/specification through installation, commissioning, and production

Experience working directly with robotics, automation equipment, machine vision, conveyors, material handling, or other production automation technologies

Experience managing automation vendors, system integrators, and equipment suppliers

Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and factory-floor operations

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot ambiguous equipment and production problems

Experience defining technical requirements, evaluating equipment, and conducting FAT/SAT or equivalent validation

Strong project ownership—you can take an automation project from problem definition through production deployment without needing someone else to drive it

Strong factory-floor execution mindset—you would rather observe a process in person than guess from a desk

Comfort working with production data and using it to validate equipment and process performance

Clear, usable written communication: equipment specifications, SOPs, test plans, commissioning documentation, and training materials

Experience working in innovative, startup, labor-intensive, and/or rapidly scaling manufacturing environments

Nice to Have

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PLC / controls experience

Experience with FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Universal Robots, or other industrial/collaborative robots

Machine vision and automated inspection

SCADA, MES, or manufacturing data systems

Automated material handling / AGVs / AMRs

Additive manufacturing / 3D printing

Finishing, coatings, or cosmetic manufacturing

CAD proficiency

Experience designing for or implementing lights-out / highly automated manufacturing

Experience building automation programs in a factory from 0→1

Join a company reimagining manufacturing and empowering the next generation of designers and design brands.

Help build the automation systems that will fundamentally change how a large-scale digital manufacturing operation runs.

Work directly on the factory floor with a small, highly technical team.

Have significant ownership over automation strategy, equipment selection, and implementation.

Be part of a high-impact, design-driven organization creating a new industry.

Competitive salary and equity

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401k

Paid vacation days and paid holidays

Access to 3D printers for your personal projects

Monthly team lunches

And much more

Gantri has already built a manufacturing operation capable of producing at significant scale. The next stage is fundamentally different: we need to make that operation dramatically more automated.

We have a large opportunity to replace manual, labor-intensive processes with robotics, automated equipment, machine vision, and smarter material handling. But buying equipment isn't the hard part. The hard part is understanding the process, designing the right solution, integrating it into production, making it reliable, and getting the factory to actually use it.

If you have built automation systems that actually run in production—and you want to do it again at a company where you can have enormous influence over the factory—we'd love to talk.

With your application, tell us about the most meaningful automation or robotics system you've implemented in a production environment: what problem were you solving, what did you personally own, what went wrong, and what did you do to get it successfully into production?