Material Handler

Overview

RETHINK MANUFACTURING

The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to create a new category of manufacturing that will help transform the industry. We believe software and data are the answer, thoughtfully applied to solve our customers’ unique challenges. Through intelligent automation, we give factories newfound flexibility, scalability, and resilience.

We deliver products to meet the demands of today while building a platform to take advantage of what comes next.

Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to create the factory of the future, we’d love to speak with you.

Bright Machines is on a mission to transform how electronics are made—bringing intelligence, scalability, and flexibility to the factory floor. We combine the best of automation, machine learning, and software to modernize manufacturing from the ground up. We are looking for a Material Handler to join our team.

A Material Handler at Bright Machines plays a key role in supporting our automated server assembly and rack-testing operations. In this position, you will move materials throughout the assembly safely, efficiently, and accurately, ensuring production lines stay supplied and inventory stays organized and traceable. Your work helps keep operations running smoothly and supports our commitment to delivering reliable, software-defined, robotics-enabled manufacturing.

• Coordinate and deliver materials to manufacturing and test areas in support of daily production schedules.
• Execute physical and system-based material movements—including staging, replenishment, transfers, and returns, using RF scanners and ERP/MES tools.
• Move materials to non-production areas such as shipping, parts prep, engineering, or office zones.
• Operate material handling equipment (e.g., pallet jacks, carts, lifts) safely and efficiently.
• Maintain stockroom organization, including accurate bin management and FIFO compliance.
• Return unused components from production to the stockroom and update system records accordingly.
• Dispose of scrap or non-conforming components following Bright Machines’ quality and EHS guidelines.
• Pull materials for purges, engineering change orders, or controlled manufacturing runs.
• Perform cycle counts, inventory audits, and reconciliation tasks to ensure high levels of inventory accuracy.
• Verify paperwork and system transactions to ensure physical material movement aligns with ERP data.
• Support continuous improvement efforts focused on material flow, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
• Perform additional duties assigned to support operations.

• Ability to communicate clearly and respond to questions from supervisors, engineers, auditors, or cross-functional partners.
• Strong problem-solving abilities—capable of collecting data, identifying issues, and drawing logical conclusions.
• Comfortable using computers, Windows-based applications, and inventory tools (ERP/MES experience preferred).
• Strong PC skills required; experience with Bright Machines’ systems or similar environments is a plus.
• Ability to read and understand work instructions, visual aids, and basic documentation.
• Able to follow standardized procedures consistently with minimal variability.
• Strong basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages).
• Ability to interpret charts, graphs, and simple reporting data.
• Reliable, detail-oriented, and organized.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, precision-driven environment.
• Strong commitment to safety, quality, and process discipline.

Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.

Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.