Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager based in Santa Clara, the Manufacturing Engineer will work to support and improve manufacturing related to optical, electrical, and mechanical assembly, configuration, and final acceptance testing. The engineer will be responsible for providing production support, such as identifying continuous improvement opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize yield, and assure product quality. Implementing process, equipment, tooling, fixture changes to improve throughput and quality.

The successful candidate will be working to execute the technical strategy to improve manufacturing capabilities, enhance product quality, minimize scraps, and sustain the highest operation efficiencies. These includes manufacturing process innovation, standardization, DFM (Design for Manufacturing)/ DFA (Design for Assembly) and process development / validation / implementation activities in support of the product life cycle plan, key strategic actions (e.g. growth, automation, continuous improvement strategies), and technical support of current equipment.

Picarro is pioneering a unique confluence of hardware, software and cloud-based computing unlike anything being done today. By manufacturing the precision instruments at the core of this technology as well as developing the algorithms that enable cogent information to be derived from the data, we are transforming how world-class scientific, industrial and regulatory compliance measurements are made, and more importantly, who makes them.

Infrared optical spectroscopy is a proven technology for delivering precise, real-time measurement of the constituents in a gas stream with high sensitivity and selectivity. Recent developments in laser technology allow for a very significant increase in the number of species that can be measured simultaneously, leading to an unprecedented increase in the amount of information that can be collected and to corresponding challenges in extracting information from the results.