# Principal Manufacturing Engineer > Raydar · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01 **Salary:** USD 160,000–190,000 **Workplace:** remote ## Description About the company Our client is an advanced manufacturing company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical expert in manufacturing engineering, spending most of your time on-site at production facilities. You will look for weaknesses from product design through shop-floor output and put lasting fixes in place. The work involves balancing quality, cost and delivery time while helping local teams build processes that can grow. What you'll do \- Work on-site at machine shops as the lead technical resource, partnering with local leaders and teams to evaluate and improve operations. \- Apply design-for-excellence thinking early so that manufacturability, quality, sourcing and reliability concerns are resolved before they reach the shop floor. \- Weigh the trade-offs of manufacturing decisions against quality, customer cost, lead time and supply chain scalability. \- Support new products as they move from initial design review to a steady, well-tuned production run. \- Pressure-test existing processes and convert undocumented, experience-based knowledge into standard practices that can be reused across several sites. \- Coach site teams and give them practical methods and guidance to scale on their own. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- 7 to 10 years of manufacturing engineering experience. \- A record of leading cross-functional improvement efforts that produced measurable gains in output, yield, delivery time or cost. \- Experience finding and closing gaps at any stage of the manufacturing lifecycle. \- Bachelor's degree in engineering. \- Hands-on experience applying design-for-excellence methods. \- Advanced skills in GD&T and tolerance analysis, including stack-ups, reading drawings and spotting over-constrained requirements. \- Solid understanding of how machining and finishing processes, materials and variation influence part quality and yield. \- Familiarity with standard production launch and risk-review practices used in precision manufacturing. \- Must be a US person. \- Willingness to travel 60% to 80% to on-site facilities. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 160,000 to 190,000 per year \- Equity Location and work model \- Remote (US) \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/B318950BD8/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)