Are you a technically minded problem-solver who thrives on driving complex builds across engineering, operations, and suppliers? We’re looking for a Manufacturing Program Manager to lead production ramp efforts for our rack-scale computer, working closely with our contract manufacturer to coordinate schedules, resolve blockers, and improve quality and efficiency at scale.
While Oxide is a remote-friendly company, we’ve found that being physically present during manufacturing is essential to building a great product and strong relationships. This role requires regular on-site presence at our contract manufacturer in Rochester, Minnesota (2–5 days per week), with additional travel to key suppliers roughly every 6–8 weeks. Relocation package is available.
As a manufacturing program manager, you will:
Be Oxide’s first point of contact for our manufacturers, cultivating successful supplier relationships to ensure they are meeting cost, schedule, and performance standards.
Develop and maintain project schedules that align engineering work, test readiness, and production milestones
Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams to optimize processes, improve product quality, and reduce waste.
Work closely with our suppliers to develop processes, procedures, and documentation for our product
Collaborate with Oxide and supplier engineering to define test equipment, fixtures, and associated documentation
Drive the integration of Engineering Change Orders to support the Master Production Schedule
Review work instructions developed by the contract manufacturer to ensure our product is correctly assembled
Coordinate with Quality Engineering to identify trends and collectively implement and support controls and improvements
Contribute to product design feedback loops by translating manufacturing pain points into clear, actionable input for the design team.
Support first article builds, bring-up, and ongoing production, acting as a hands-on lead from prototype to scale.
Partner with the broader team to ensure traceability and configuration control of both our products and our programming/test infrastructure.
Maintain awareness of Oxide customer configurations and ship date commitments, escalating and expediting when necessary
You will thrive in this role if you:
Enjoy building strong cross-functional teams and working relationships with manufacturing partners, bringing your technical background to bear on complex challenges that cut across organizational boundaries
Have experience working as a manufacturing engineer with contract manufacturers in the electronics industry, from printed circuit board fabrication and assembly all the way to system integration and test.
Are as comfortable creating a project schedule as you are developing a diagram for a test system.
Can interpret and review mechanical drawings using GD&T to ensure design intent is accurately captured and buildable at scale
Familiarity with CAD (we use SolidWorks) to troubleshoot design issues and consult on changes/fixtures to support manufacturing
Have the curiosity to dive into a technical quality issue and the patience to resolve a BOM question with configuration management.
Are energized by structure, rigor, and systems but flexible enough to operate in an fast-moving startup environment
Are curious, detail-oriented, and calm in the face of ambiguity or unexpected challenges
Before applying for this role, you should:
Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Listen to some of our manufacturing-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line
Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together.
