Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis. We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onward toward certifying the Joby aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and launching our initial commercial service.

Joby Aviation is seeking a highly organized, passionate Automation Engineering Lead to join our powertrain and electronics team to step-change the safety, quality, quantity, and cost of our manufacturing production lines through automation. The role spans atoms and bits, setting the go-forward strategy and standards for physical and digital connected machines. The role leads teams of controls engineers, mechanical engineers, and high-skill build technicians. The ideal candidate knows automation engineering is a partner to manufacturing engineers, production staff, and the broader cross-functional team to the end of setting-up production technicians to succeed. Joby Aviation is made up of extremely talented, hardworking, proactive, and hands-on individuals operating in a very fast-paced and rewarding environment. Come help us build advanced powertrains and electronics as we transform the transportation industry.

• Create a connected factory where humans focus on difficult value-add responsibilities and automation handles the balance.
• Partner with manufacturing engineers to innovate manufacturing process automation.
• Lead in-house architecture, detailed design, build, and commissioning of automation equipment for our most complex and novel manufacturing processes.
• Partner with internal engineers and third-party equipment-building companies (integrators) to deliver fully-automated workstations and entire production lines.
• Partner with the Factory Systems team to determine the software and data pipeline interface, go-forward architecture, and development priorities.
• Lead controls engineers to design and deliver automated workstations that are connected to our web platforms via the Factory System team’s “kibana pipeline”.
• Lead mechanical engineers who partner with manufacturing engineers to design and deliver manual, semi-automated, and fully automated manufacturing tooling and workstations.
• Lead high-skill multi-disciplinary technicians to build complex electromechanical manual, semi-automated, and fully-automated manufacturing tooling and workstations in a constant feedback loop with the engineers.

• BS in Engineering or relevant field with 8+ years of experience. 
• Demonstrated experience professionally developing technical teams and setting those team members up to do their best work at high engagement.
• Ability to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from concept through commissioning and deployment to manufacturing.
• Extensive experience in software design, build, test, and deployment for robot, PLC, and cloud.

• Mastery of ASME Y14.5-2018.
• Experience with Kafka and MQTT.
• Experience with Beckhoff PLC and Ignition industrial application platforms.
• Experience with SolidWorks or equivalent CAD.

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $168,000 - $251,100/yr per year salary. The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer.