# Manufacturing Engineer - Company: [Vital Lyfe]() - Location: Los Angeles - Greater Area - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $125K – $145K - Posted: July 2, 2026 ## Job 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 For** **Required:** * Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial or equivalent). * 2+ years professional experience in manufacturing engineering, process development or production optimization (including internships). * 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 Job Requirements - Essential Functions** * Hands on work on development hardware. * Long periods of standing, crouching, walking. * Lifting up to 50 lbs. **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. ## Apply [Apply on Vital Lyfe]() Canonical job page: