Manufacturing Engineer

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for developing manufacturing solutions that enable new products from early design through production ramp. You will work closely with Product Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Quality, and factory engineering teams to influence product design, define assembly strategies, and develop the fixtures, tooling, equipment, and processes required to manufacture products at scale.

You will apply strong mechanical design fundamentals, DFX expertise, and hands-on manufacturing experience to identify manufacturing risks early, translate product requirements into robust manufacturing solutions, and solve complex technical challenges with a high degree of independence.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with Product Design and Mechanical Engineering throughout product development to drive DFM, DFA, and DFX, identifying manufacturing risks and influencing product designs for assembly, quality, scalability, automation, and cost.

• Develop manufacturing concepts and assembly strategies from early prototypes through production, translating product requirements into practical manufacturing processes, tooling, and equipment.

• Design and develop fixtures, tooling, nests, gauges, and manufacturing aids used for assembly, alignment, bonding, welding, inspection, and test.

• Own fixture and tooling development from concept through detailed design, tolerance analysis, fabrication, debugging, qualification, and release to production.

• Apply GD&T, tolerance analysis, datum strategies, and mechanical design principles to ensure product and fixture designs support repeatable manufacturing and measurement.

• Work with product engineering teams to evaluate component interfaces, assembly sequences, joining methods, tolerance stack-ups, and other design characteristics that impact manufacturability.

• Develop and qualify manufacturing processes including adhesive bonding, heat staking, mechanical assembly, and other processes used in small consumer electronic devices.

• Define critical process parameters, process windows, acceptance criteria, and controls to ensure manufacturing processes consistently meet product requirements.

• Evaluate manual and automated assembly approaches and develop fixture and equipment concepts that enable appropriate levels of automation.