Electronics Manufacturing Engineer

The posting, as Standard Bots wrote it

ABOUT STANDARD BOTS

Standard Bots builds next-generation robotics for manufacturing affordable, capable, American-made automation. Our hardware is a tightly integrated electromechanical system, and we build it in-house at our Glen Cove, NY facility. The electronics inside our robots, the PCBAs that drive motion, sensing, and control are core IP, and how well they're designed for manufacturing directly determines our yield, our cost, and how fast we can scale.

Role

We're looking for an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer who lives at the intersection of design and production. You'll be the person who makes sure the boards our electrical engineers design can actually be built, reliably, at yield, at cost; whether they run on our in-house SMT line or get handed to a contract manufacturer.

This is a blend of two jobs. On the DFM side, you're the manufacturing conscience in the room during PCB design: reviewing layouts and packages before they're released, catching issues and errors early, and holding the line on the standards that keep boards manufacturable. On the process side, you own the SMT/PCBA process itself — bring-up, process control, yield, and the day-to-day of getting good boards out the door. You're as comfortable marking up a fabrication package as you are standing at the reflow oven diagnosing a solder defect.

The right person is opinionated and constructive. When an EE hands you a design that's going to cause tombstoning, unroutable rework, or a package no CM will accept, you say so early, clearly, and with the fix and you make the standard stick so the same issue doesn't come back.

What you'll own

• DFM review of PCB designs. Review PCBA layouts, footprints, stack-ups, and fabrication/assembly packages before release — including stack-up and controlled-impedance manufacturability. Give clear, specific DFM/DFA and design-for-test (DFT) feedback to electrical engineers; call out issues, errors, and rule violations, and drive them to resolution before the design goes to build.
• DFM automation and checking. Run systematic, rule-based DFM/DFA checks with automated tooling (Valor, CAM350, Allegro DFM, or equivalent) so reviews are consistent and repeatable rather than eyeballed and keep the rule decks current as parts, processes, and vendors change.
• Design for test (DFT). Partner with electrical engineering to build test coverage and access into designs from the start; test points, probe access, and ICT/flying-probe/boundary-scan considerations so boards are testable, not just able to be assembled.
• Manufacturing best practices. Own and uphold the DFM rule set; component spacing, courtyards and keep-outs, panelization, fiducials, thermal relief, testability, and land-pattern standards (IPC-7351 / IPC-2221 / IPC-A-610 class). Keep the standards documented and current, and make sure designs actually conform.
• Package quality and CM readiness. Ensure every output package; Gerbers, fab and assembly drawings, BOM, pick-and-p

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• Experience preparing and reviewing manufacturing output packages for handoff to internal lines and/or external CMs.
• A constructive, direct communication style; can tell an engineer their design has a problem, make the case, and land the fix without friction.

Preferred Qualifications

• ECAD fluency (Altium, Cadence/Allegro, KiCad) enough to open a design, inspect footprints and layout and mark it up.
• Experience standing up or scaling an in-house SMT line, or transitioning boards between internal and contract manufacturing.
• CAM/DFM tooling depth (Valor, CAM350, Allegro DFM) and experience building or maintaining automated DFM rule decks.
• Automated/functional test (ATE) experience; National Instruments/LabVIEW, Pico Technology, or equivalent.
• Robotics, automotive, aerospace, medical, or other precision/high-reliability electronics backgrounds.
• Lean/Six Sigma and SPC on an SMT line.
• Familiarity with ERP/MES and PLM systems.

Why this role

You'll own the seam between how our electronics are designed and how they're actually built — the place where yield, cost, and scale are won or lost. You'll have real authority to set the DFM standard, the tools to enforce it, and a design team that needs your feedback to ship. If you like being the person who makes hard boards manufacturable and hates seeing preventable defects reach the line, this is your seat.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The salary range for this role is $110,000 to $145,000. We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role and will build compensation packages that are commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.