Vehicle Manufacturing NPI Lead

About

With customers at its core, Stack AV is focused on revolutionizing the way businesses transport goods, designing solutions to alleviate long-standing issues that have plagued the trucking industry including driver shortages, lagging efficiency in uptime per vehicle, overarching safety concerns, high operating costs, and elevated emission levels. By building safe and efficient autonomous trucking solutions, Stack AV is creating better and smarter supply chains for its partners, improving business outcomes for its customers, delivering goods to end-users faster, and ultimately moving the trucking industry forward.

What We're Looking for:

We are looking for people who are passionate about delivering self-driving (L4) products that make the way we move safer, faster, and more efficient. We seek mission-driven, highly skilled people with deep experience in fast-paced, rapidly growing, tech development environments.

What Success Looks Like:

• Establish new product introduction process with manufacturing partners including operations, quality, and engineering change management processes.
• Drive build readiness including quality and assembly process development and related tooling and training.
• Lead technical and operations management of Stack’s manufacturing site operations to ensure successful development and pre-production vehicle builds.
• Partner closely with the contract manufacturer and internal engineering and supply chain teams to proactively address risks, troubleshoot and root cause issues, and implement corrective actions.
• Work with TPM, GSM, Engineering, and manufacturing to develop and deliver to build plan.
• Typically onsite at CM in the Detroit, MI area. Some travel is required to visit suppliers and internal Stack locations.

Experience / Necessary Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with vehicle manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Technical understanding of autonomous vehicle components and their integration.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.

Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV’s ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.