Process Engineer, Product Introduction; NPI

Process Engineer – New Product Introduction (NPI)

As a Process Engineer on our New Product Introduction (NPI) team, you’ll be at the forefront of transforming advanced manufacturing concepts into real‑world products and solutions. Your role will be to design and scale processes that bridge the gap between prototype and production, ensuring high‑volume manufacturability, validating first articles, and enabling the successful launch of products across EV, energy storage, and aerospace industries.

This is more than engineering; it’s turning bold ideas into manufacturable realities that accelerate the future of power and data transmission.

These openings are for Level 4‑5 engineers.

• Scale innovative processes from prototype to high‑volume manufacturing, driving yield, throughput, and manufacturability.
• Design, implement, and validate manufacturing processes that ensure product scalability, quality, and reliability.
• Build and qualify first articles while establishing process readiness for customer and internal validation.
• Partner with customer‑facing teams and cross‑functional engineering groups to prove out product viability and readiness for commercialization.
• Identify product development needs and act as a conduit for aligning process roadmaps with customer requirements and future technologies.
• Conduct structured experiments and root cause analysis to de‑risk manufacturing scale‑up and accelerate product launches.
• Work hands‑on with high‑volume manufacturing and R&D equipment.
• Develop process documentation and train staff to ensure smooth handoff from NPI into sustained high‑volume production.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field.
• 5‑7+ years of hands‑on professional experience.

• Proven experience scaling processes from prototype to production.
• Strong background in process design for manufacturability, yield improvement, and cost reduction.
• Experience with prototype builds, first‑article validation, and technical collaboration.
• Prior manufacturing start‑up experience.
• Familiarity with advanced materials and high‑volume manufacturing methods (vacuum lamination, thermally‑activated adhesives, roll‑to‑roll processing, material patterning, laser welding).
• Solid background in statistical methods, data visualization, systematic experiment design, and related software (JMP, Minitab).
• Ability to synthesize and interpret complex data sets to understand physical phenomena and support data‑driven decisions.
• Ability to safely and confidently operate and troubleshoot custom manufacturing and metrology equipment.
• Independent problem solver with a desire to learn new skills and new technology.
• Strong organization skills and a detail‑oriented mindset.
• Able to adapt to changing requirements in a fast‑paced start‑up setting.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, energized by working across functions to bring products to market.

You’ll have the opportunity to become a shareholder through Cel Link’s discretionary employee stock option plan. You’ll also receive comprehensive medical and dental coverage and other benefits.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, pull or push, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment includes both a typical office environment with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run or maintain machines.

San Carlos, CA Base Pay: $120,000—$170,000 USD.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. Cel Link participates in the E‑Verify program in specific locations as required by law.