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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.