Manufacturing Engineer

About the role

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Tractian, you will ensure the highest quality standards for our IoT hardware products. You will collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to deliver reliable, mass‑producible solutions that meet rigorous performance criteria.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new suppliers and validate emerging technologies to improve product quality and performance.
• Participate in design reviews, providing insights on quality concerns and ensuring design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM/DFA).
• Define quality standards, specifications, and inspection criteria for mechanical components and assemblies in partnership with design and quality teams.
• Conduct regular manufacturing audits to identify improvement opportunities and maintain compliance with quality standards.
• Support new product introduction (NPI) of sensors and technologies.
• Work with production to validate processes and guarantee consistency across manufacturing runs.
• Develop new manufacturing processes to enable additional product features.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with engineering projects and manufacturing techniques.
• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering principles, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Proficiency in inspection techniques, metrology, GD&T, and non‑destructive testing methods.
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and experience leading root‑cause analysis investigations.
• Fluent reading and writing proficiency in English.

Required skills

• Inspection techniques
• Metrology
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Non‑destructive testing
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Design for Assembly (DFA)
• Supplier development
• New Product Introduction (NPI) processes
• Process validation
• Injection molding (bonus)
• CNC machining (bonus)