Manufacturing Systems Engineer

As Manufacturing Systems Engineer, you will design and build the systems, processes, and flows that allow Dunia’s materials platforms to scale from lab-level validation to repeatable, industrially relevant production. You will think in systems: processes, equipment, data, controls, and people.

This role exists to ensure that scale does not break what makes Dunia so fast.

Your tasks will include:

Design scalable manufacturing systems

• Design end-to-end manufacturing processes for materials and devices transitioning out of R&D
• Define process flows, equipment requirements, and throughput models
• Ensure systems are robust, repeatable, and designed for iteration

Bridge discovery and manufacturing

• Work closely with research, automation, and AI teams to translate experimental workflows into scalable processes
• Identify where lab-scale assumptions break at higher throughput
• Ensure manufacturing constraints inform upstream discovery decisions

Build manufacturing readiness

• Develop process documentation, control strategies, and quality frameworks
• Support facility layout, equipment integration, and commissioning
• Anticipate scale-up risks and address them early

Embed data and learning into manufacturing

• Design systems that generate high-quality process and performance data
• Enable feedback loops between manufacturing, experimentation, and AI models
• Treat manufacturing as a learning system, not a static endpoint

• Degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering or a related field
• 5+year’s experience designing or scaling manufacturing or process systems in industrial or deep-tech environments
• Strong systems-level thinking across process, equipment, and data
• Experience working across R&D and manufacturing boundaries
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Clear communicator with a bias toward execution and ownership
• English fluency; additional languages desirable