Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Join Teleo as a Lead Manufacturing Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in the transition of our autonomy retrofit kits from prototype to contract manufacturing. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, oversee production, and ensure delivery, cost, and quality targets are met. This position requires a strong background in manufacturing or process engineering, experience with electro-mechanical hardware, and familiarity with CAD and EE design tools.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop manufacturing processes and oversee the handoff to contract manufacturing.
• Act as the primary point of contact for issues at the contract manufacturer, ensuring delivery, cost, and quality targets are met.
• Monitor on-time delivery and cost at the contract manufacturer, driving root cause analysis and corrective action on production issues.

• Familiar with ERP/PLM/inventory systems (NetSuite, Ironflow, Odoo, etc.)
• Familiar with CAD (Onshape or similar) and EE design tools (KiCAD, Altium or similar)
• Advanced proficiency interpreting mechanical and electrical designs, with working knowledge of GD&T, tolerance stacking, and basic SPC
• CM management experience, on-site support and running ECR/ECO across two organizations
• Skilled at using AI tools to accelerate manufacturing workflows automating data review
• DFM/DFA/DFT experience across NPI, ramp, and scale, able to look at a design and flag manufacturability issues early
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Working knowledge of mechanical processes (CNC, casting, sheet metal, powder coating, jigs/fixtures), enough to judge whether a part or process will hold up in the field, and what to flag at the CM's FATP line
• Hands-on with SOP development, box builds, PCB/A, harness and cable assembly manufacturing, and FW/SW flashing
• Comfortable around autonomy systems; integration, test, and validation of sensor/compute hardware (LiDAR, camera, radar, compute)
• Working knowledge of QMS (ISO 9001, AS9100, MIL-STD), supplier/vendor quality management (incoming inspection, SCAR, vendor scorecards), and inventory control at a CM
• Strong root-cause instincts; can write build docs a CM tech can follow with zero design context
• 5+ years in manufacturing or process engineering on electro-mechanical hardware that actually ships to the field
• Experience retrofitting or manufacturing autonomous vehicles, off-highway, construction, defense equipment
• Experience with C++ and Python for coding, scripting, debugging, building UIs, building test benches, and troubleshooting