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About the Role
TAR builds its own construction robots for gigawatt-scale proprietary racking installation. As the fleet grows, manufacturing engineering becomes critical for deploying working machines. As Head of Manufacturing Engineering, you will own this discipline company-wide, scaling from hands-on builds to a robust manufacturing engineering organization with established standards, quality systems, and planning capabilities for higher-volume production across all programs. This is a senior leadership position based at our San Francisco robotics facility.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the manufacturing engineering strategy and roadmap across TAR's robotics product lines, aligning capacity, tooling, and process investment with company scaling plans.
- Build and lead the manufacturing engineering organization, hiring, structuring, and developing engineers and engineering leads.
- Own capital equipment and capacity planning, forecasting headcount, tooling, and facility investment for scaling production.
- Set company-wide manufacturing engineering standards, quality systems, and documentation practices.
- Own supplier and contract manufacturer strategy at the organizational level, including selection, negotiation, and accountability.
- Establish company-wide root-cause and continuous-improvement processes.
- Serve as the senior manufacturing engineering voice on the leadership team, influencing investment decisions, make-versus-buy trade-offs, and production timelines.
- Represent manufacturing engineering externally with customers, partners, and investors.
Requirements
- 10+ years of manufacturing engineering experience.
- 5+ years in a leadership role (Director, Head of, or VP level) building and running a manufacturing engineering organization.
- Demonstrated experience scaling manufacturing engineering across multiple product lines, programs, or sites.
- Track record owning capital equipment planning and budget for manufacturing scale-up.
- Experience with make-versus-buy and contract manufacturer decisions at a strategic level.
- Experience building and leading a team of manufacturing engineers and engineering leads, including hiring and developing people managers.
- Deep expertise across the manufacturing value chain: DFM, tooling, process development, and quality systems.
- Strong communication skills, comfortable representing manufacturing engineering decisions to executive leadership, customers, and investors.
Skills
- DFM
- Tooling
- Process development
- Quality systems
- Capital equipment planning
- Capacity planning
- Supplier strategy
- Contract manufacturer management
- Root-cause analysis
- Continuous improvement
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Director
- Head of
- VP level
Benefits
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- $1K monthly stipend for meals
About the Company
- TAR's mission is to power intelligence for the world by building the world’s first off-grid power plants for data centers powered by renewable technologies.
- We are building GW-scale power faster than ever by rethinking every layer of the stack and vertically integrating to solve bottlenecks.
- TAR is both a hardware and software company, building massive, critical, physical infrastructure.
- TAR is working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.
- We operate on principles of high ownership, high agency, speed, first principles, no ego, no hierarchy, challenging assumptions, and passion for solving the energy problem.