Staff Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company

Gantri is building the next generation of digital manufacturing for design. We enable designers and brands to create high-quality, sustainable products significantly faster and more flexibly than traditional manufacturing.

Gantri operates one of the world’s largest production 3D printing farms for consumer lighting and manufactures products on-demand at our Digital Factory in California. Our vertically integrated manufacturing platform combines additive manufacturing, advanced finishing, coatings, automation, process engineering, and software-driven operations to reimagine how products are made at scale.

As we aggressively scale production capacity, we are investing heavily in manufacturing systems, labor efficiency, and factory industrialization across printing, sanding, priming, painting, inspection, curing, and material flow operations.

Role

We are seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer who is deeply technical, highly practical, and relentlessly focused on improving manufacturing systems at scale.

This is not a traditional sustaining manufacturing engineering role. This is a highly hands-on, high-impact manufacturing systems role focused on scaling and industrializing real-world additive manufacturing and finishing operations.

You will work directly on the factory floor to identify bottlenecks, redesign workflows, improve manufacturability, increase throughput, reduce labor content, and help build the future operating model for Gantri manufacturing.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable diagnosing print failures, redesigning sanding workflows, developing tooling and fixtures, optimizing coating processes, improving production flow, and leading large-scale process improvement initiatives under aggressive timelines and constrained resources.

This role will directly influence Gantri’s ability to dramatically improve manufacturing efficiency and scale our next-generation digital manufacturing platform.

Additive Manufacturing Scaling

• Improve throughput, uptime, reliability, and manufacturability across large-scale 3D printing operations
• Optimize print workflows, printer utilization, maintenance systems, and production readiness
• Develop scalable operational standards for high-volume additive manufacturing

• Lead major improvements in sanding, priming, painting, coating, curing, and cosmetic finishing operations
• Reduce labor content while improving surface quality and process consistency
• Design scalable finishing workflows, tooling, fixtures, and workstations

• Identify and execute high-impact labor reduction opportunities across production operations
• Improve factory flow, ergonomics, material handling, staging, and production sequencing
• Drive measurable gains in throughput, cycle time, yield, and staffing efficiency

• Develop robust manufacturing processes capable of scaling with production growth
• Establish process controls, SOPs, validation methods, and engineering standards
• Lead root cause analysis and rapid problem solving for complex manufacturing issues

• Operate as a senior technical leader across manufacturing operations
• Mentor engineers and technicians
• Help prioritize and execute critical scaling initiatives under aggressive timelines and constrained resources

• 8+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience
• Strong experience in process-intensive manufacturing environments
• Proven ability to scale complex production operations
• Excellent mechanical and process engineering intuition
• Strong factory-floor execution mindset
• Ability to independently identify and drive high-leverage improvements
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, highly ambiguous environments

• Additive manufacturing / 3D printing experience
• Finishing, coating, paint, sanding, polishing, or cosmetic manufacturing experience
• Experience with high-mix, low-volume manufacturing
• Startup or rapid-scaling manufacturing experience
• Fixture, tooling, and workstation design experience
• Experience improving labor-intensive manufacturing operations

• Additive manufacturing
• Aerospace composites
• Automotive paint or surface finishing
• Consumer electronics cosmetic manufacturing
• Footwear manufacturing
• Advanced prototyping labs
• Industrial coating operations
• Dental or medical device manufacturing
• High-end fabrication environments

• Help define the future of advanced digital manufacturing at scale
• Directly influence how Gantri’s factory platform evolves and operates
• Solve complex, real-world manufacturing problems with immediate operational impact
• Drive major improvements in throughput, labor efficiency, and manufacturing scalability
• Work across additive manufacturing, finishing systems, automation, and process engineering
• Join a fast-growing, design-driven manufacturing company operating at the intersection of hardware, software, and industrial systems
• Collaborate with highly technical and mission-driven teams building next-generation production infrastructure

Gantri is at a critical scaling point.

We have significantly more manufacturing improvement opportunities than available engineering bandwidth. This role is intended for someone who wants to directly shape the future of advanced digital manufacturing and have immediate, visible impact on factory performance.

You will help define:

• how we scale,
• how we manufacture,
• and ultimately what Gantri’s future factory platform becomes.

If you love solving difficult physical manufacturing problems and building systems that actually work at scale, we would love to talk.

• Competitive salary and equity options
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off and flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Professional development opportunities and learning stipend
• Collaborative, hands-on, and engineering-driven work environment
• Opportunity to directly shape next-generation manufacturing systems and factory operations
• Access to Gantri-designed products and innovation initiatives

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.