Company
Gantri is building the next generation of digital manufacturing for design-driven products.
We operate one of the world’s largest production 3D printing farms for consumer lighting and are transforming a highly manual manufacturing process into a scalable, process-driven advanced manufacturing platform.
Our factory combines additive manufacturing, advanced finishing, process engineering, automation, and software-driven operations.
Our next challenge is automation. Over the next several years, we are investing heavily in automation and robotics to fundamentally change how our factory operates—reducing manual labor, increasing throughput, improving consistency, and building the manufacturing infrastructure required to scale.
We are looking for a senior engineer to help lead that transformation from the factory floor.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Manufacturing Automation Engineer to identify, design, specify, integrate, and scale automation and robotic systems across Gantri's production environment.
This is not a role where you inherit an established automated factory and maintain existing equipment. You will help build the automation layer of the factory from the ground up.
You will identify opportunities where robotics, automated material handling, machine vision, equipment, and other manufacturing technologies can replace or augment manual processes. You'll work from the factory floor to understand the process, develop the technical requirements, evaluate potential solutions, work with equipment vendors and integrators, install and commission systems, train operators and technicians, and ultimately make sure the automation delivers measurable production results.
You will also own the manufacturing process improvements necessary to make automation successful. That means understanding the process before automating it, simplifying workflows, defining requirements and acceptance criteria, solving integration problems, and continuously improving systems once they are in production.
We don't need someone who simply recommends automation. We need someone who can make it happen.
What You'll Own
Factory Automation & Robotics
Identify high-value opportunities to automate manual production processes across printing, finishing, inspection, material handling, and fulfillment
Evaluate processes for automation readiness and determine where automation will meaningfully improve labor efficiency, throughput, quality, or safety
Develop technical requirements, system specifications, layouts, and acceptance criteria for new automation equipment
Evaluate and select robotics, conveyors, machine vision, material handling, and other production technologies
Work directly with automation vendors, integrators, and equipment suppliers from concept through installation and commissioning
Lead factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing to ensure systems meet technical and production requirements
Troubleshoot integration and production issues and drive vendors toward resolution
Establish standards and documentation for automation systems so they can be maintained and scaled
Automation Implementation
Take automation projects from initial concept through production deployment
Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, process validation, and production ramp
Work directly with operators, technicians, manufacturing engineers, and vendors on the factory floor
Develop SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and maintenance requirements for new automated systems
Measure automation performance against defined targets for throughput, quality, uptime, labor, and safety
Identify and eliminate failure modes that prevent automated equipment from operating reliably in production
Build a roadmap for scaling successful automation solutions across the factory
Manufacturing Process Engineering
Understand existing manufacturing processes deeply enough to determine what should—and should not—be automated
Redesign processes and workflows to enable effective automation
Lead root cause analysis when automated systems or production processes fail
Run structured experiments and trials to validate process and equipment changes
Develop process controls and standards that ensure improvements persist after implementation
Analyze production data to validate that automation is delivering the expected results
Production Systems & Data
Partner with Gantri's software and manufacturing teams to connect automated equipment to production systems
Translate physical factory workflows into clear equipment logic, requirements, edge cases, and acceptance criteria
Establish data collection and monitoring requirements for automated equipment
Use production data to identify bottlenecks, equipment failures, and opportunities for further automation
Build simple tracking and reporting to measure automation performance and ROI
Technical Leadership
Establish the technical standard for manufacturing automation at Gantri
Help define the factory's long-term automation architecture and roadmap
Evaluate emerging robotics and manufacturing technologies for potential application
Help prioritize automation investments based on production impact, technical feasibility, and cost
Raise the technical capabilities of engineers and technicians working alongside you
Build repeatable approaches for taking automation projects from concept to production
What We're Looking For:
Above all, we're looking for someone who has actually put automation into a factory.
You should be comfortable standing on a production floor, looking at a manual process, and figuring out how to turn it into a reliable automated system. You don't need to have automated 3D printing before, but you need to understand manufacturing equipment, robotics, production processes, and what it takes to get an automated system working reliably in the real world.
Beyond that, we're looking for:
5–10+ years of hands-on experience in manufacturing automation, robotics, controls, manufacturing engineering, or a closely related discipline
Proven experience taking automation or robotic equipment from concept/specification through installation, commissioning, and production
Experience working directly with robotics, automation equipment, machine vision, conveyors, material handling, or other production automation technologies
Experience managing automation vendors, system integrators, and equipment suppliers
Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and factory-floor operations
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot ambiguous equipment and production problems
Experience defining technical requirements, evaluating equipment, and conducting FAT/SAT or equivalent validation
Strong project ownership—you can take an automation project from problem definition through production deployment without needing someone else to drive it
Strong factory-floor execution mindset—you would rather observe a process in person than guess from a desk
Comfort working with production data and using it to validate equipment and process performance
Clear, usable written communication: equipment specifications, SOPs, test plans, commissioning documentation, and training materials
Experience working in innovative, startup, labor-intensive, and/or rapidly scaling manufacturing environments
Nice to Have
PLC / controls experience
Experience with FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Universal Robots, or other industrial/collaborative robots
Machine vision and automated inspection
SCADA, MES, or manufacturing data systems
Automated material handling / AGVs / AMRs
Additive manufacturing / 3D printing
Finishing, coatings, or cosmetic manufacturing
CAD proficiency
Experience designing for or implementing lights-out / highly automated manufacturing
Experience building automation programs in a factory from 0→1
Why Gantri
Join a company reimagining manufacturing and empowering the next generation of designers and design brands.
Help build the automation systems that will fundamentally change how a large-scale digital manufacturing operation runs.
Work directly on the factory floor with a small, highly technical team.
Have significant ownership over automation strategy, equipment selection, and implementation.
Be part of a high-impact, design-driven organization creating a new industry.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Medical, dental and vision insurance
401k
Paid vacation days and paid holidays
Access to 3D printers for your personal projects
Monthly team lunches
And much more
Why This Role Matters
Gantri has already built a manufacturing operation capable of producing at significant scale. The next stage is fundamentally different: we need to make that operation dramatically more automated.
We have a large opportunity to replace manual, labor-intensive processes with robotics, automated equipment, machine vision, and smarter material handling. But buying equipment isn't the hard part. The hard part is understanding the process, designing the right solution, integrating it into production, making it reliable, and getting the factory to actually use it.
This person will be one of the people responsible for making that transformation happen.
If you have built automation systems that actually run in production—and you want to do it again at a company where you can have enormous influence over the factory—we'd love to talk.
With your application, tell us about the most meaningful automation or robotics system you've implemented in a production environment: what problem were you solving, what did you personally own, what went wrong, and what did you do to get it successfully into production?
