Our team at Bloom Energy embraces the unprecedented opportunity to change the way companies utilize energy. Our technology empowers businesses and communities to responsibly take charge of their energy. Our energy platform has three key value propositions: resiliency, sustainability, and predictability. We provide infrastructure that is flexible for the evolving net zero ecosystem. We have deployed more than 30,000 fuel cell modules since our first commercial shipments in 2009, sending energy platforms to data centers, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, biotechnology facilities, major retail stores, financial institutions, telecom facilities, utilities, and other critical infrastructure customers around the world.

Our mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable globally. We never stop striving to improve our technology, to expand and improve our company performance, and to develop and support the many talented employees that serve our mission!

We are looking for an SeniorAdvanced Manufacturing Engineer join our team in one of today’s most exciting technologies.  This role will report to Sr. Director, Advance Automation and based in San Jose, California.  This is a fully on-site, in office role.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Be the technical leader that integrates our mature Bloom Energy process nodes into a scalable, highly automated and Industry 4.0 compliant manufacturing solution.
• Align the R&D and Mfg. Engineering teams on a cohesive manufacturing strategy that meets the needs of all stakeholders
• Work with Bloom Energy’s experts to select the best suppliers for the process node equipment, material movement automation, metrology and IT infrastructure that meets our cost, throughput and quality needs
• Use broad advanced automation experience to identify and evaluate Proof of Concepts that deliver our process requirements meeting the UPH, capex and throughput per sqft requirements as set forward by the management
• Oversee some design an integrated smart manufacturing data collection and processing platform to drastically reduce our dependency on direct and indirect labor
• Lead the effort to engineer, develop, budget and deliver a pilot platform that demonstrates clear scalability in a matrix format as needed.
• Lead the debugging of the pilot line till it meets the yield, cost and throughput requirements.  Prepare all the documentation needed for a smooth and fast high-volume roll-out of the integrated manufacturing solution.

Skills and Experience: 

• 4 yrs of relevant automation experience
• 4 yrs of experience, Tesla and design / deploy full automated battery line from scratch manufacturability, debugging for high volume purposes
• Demonstrated team building and leadership skills.
• Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.
• Deeply familiar with the diverse and global capex supplier base for automation, screen printing, precision placement and high temperature processing
• Experienced in creating business proposals for > $100M projects that requiring board approval
• Led multiple projects involving integrating metrology and data collection in fully automated production lines.  Knowledgeable on Industry 4.0 ready software architectures and solutions.

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Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.

Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.

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