# Lead Manufacturing Engineer at Vital Lyfe

Lead Manufacturing Engineer at Vital Lyfe in Los Angeles - Greater Area. On-site, full-time, paying $140k–$150k. Posted November 4, 2026.

- Company: Vital Lyfe
- Location: Los Angeles - Greater Area
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $140k–$150k
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vital-lyfe/b3ab53ac-63e5-4c0c-8190-a164c7e82194/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/lead-manufacturing-engineer-vital-lyfe-zyrsk7

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial or equivalent).
- 2+ years as a project lead
- Strong CAD (SolidWorks / other) experience and familiarity with manufacturing automation, tooling & fixture design.
- Hands on mindset: comfortable designing the process and also working with operators & equipment to validate and refine.
- Strong problem solving skills, ability to operate in ambiguous/higher growth environment, clear communicator across teams.

## Description

**About Vital Lyfe**
Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can’t.
**What You'll Do**

- Design, develop and optimize manufacturing processes and production lines for our desalination systems, from first builds through high rate production.

- Lead DFM/DFA initiatives: tooling, fixtures, robot end-effectors, conveyors, automation programming, control systems.

- Work cross functionally to select equipment, define cycle-times, yield targets, cost-per-unit, quality metrics.

- Develop work instructions, process flows, layout designs; implement and validate manufacturing methods for new systems.

- Own continuous improvement efforts: reduce cost, increase throughput, improve reliability and uptime in a fast-moving hardware startup environment.

- Collaborate with procurement, quality, test, integration teams and external vendors/suppliers to ensure smooth scale up & ramp out of manufacturing.

**What We’re Looking ForRequired:**

- Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial or equivalent).

- 2+ years as a project lead

- Strong CAD (SolidWorks / other) experience and familiarity with manufacturing automation, tooling & fixture design.

- Hands on mindset: comfortable designing the process and also working with operators & equipment to validate and refine.

- Strong problem solving skills, ability to operate in ambiguous/higher growth environment, clear communicator across teams.

**Preferred:**

- Experience in consumer hardware production, or systems with high-volume manufacturing.

- Knowledge of pumps, valves, pressure vessels, fluid systems or broadly mechanical-hardware manufacturing.

- Experience with automation programming, conveyors, robotics, fluid/pressure equipment.

- Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical process control (SPC).

- Experience in a hardware startup or mission-driven organization.

**Physical Requirements** (with or without reasonable accommodation)

- Hands on work on development hardware.

- Long periods of standing, crouching, walking.

- Lifting up to 50 lbs.

- Wear required PPE (safety glasses, gloves, safety shoes) in production areas. Required personal protective equipment (PPE), including safety shoes, will be provided or reimbursed by Vital Lyfe.

**Why Join Vital Lyfe?**

- Work on high-impact problems with global relevance

- Help scale breakthrough technology in water security and climate resilience

- Early ownership in a high-growth, engineering-led startup

- Join a tight-knit, mission-driven team in a fast-paced environment

- Build long-term career equity as we grow

Location Requirement: Ability to work 100% onsite in Torrance, CA (remote or hybrid work will not be considered)

Vital Lyfe is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vital Lyfe is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.