Mid-level engineer · Full-time · Permanent · Primarily on-site · London

Own hands-on design failure analysis and turn prototypes into robust, repeatable manufactured products.

Why join us now

e-nano ROBOTICS is entering its next stage of growth. As we move into our new London headquarters and workshop, we're expanding our team to scale the development, manufacturing and deployment of our robotics, sensing and AI systems. We're looking for practical, ambitious people who want to take ownership, build real products and help shape how a growing UK robotics company operates.

The role

We are looking for a Production Engineer / DFMEA Engineer with master's-level engineering training (or equivalent demonstrated capability) and several years of relevant experience to take hands-on ownership of Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and product industrialisation across our robotics and sensing hardware. This is an individual-contributor engineering role, not a technician position or a purely coordinating FMEA facilitator.

You will personally develop and maintain analyses, work with designers to identify and reduce failure risks, and translate engineering designs into robust assembly, verification and production processes. You will collaborate with the CTO, engineering team, workshop and Manufacturing & Scale-up Lead. Engineering retains product design authority; the Manufacturing & Scale-up Lead owns overarching manufacturing and supply-chain strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Personally plan, create, facilitate where useful, document and maintain detailed product and subsystem DFMEAs across mechanical, electrical and electromechanical assemblies.
• Define functions, failure modes, effects, causes, existing controls and risk-prioritised mitigation actions; track actions to closure and verify effectiveness.
• Link DFMEA findings to design changes, requirements, verification plans, tests, build instructions and engineering change control.
• Carry out hands-on design reviews, prototype inspection, fault investigation and testing to validate failure hypotheses.
• Support design for manufacture and assembly (DFM/DFA), tolerance reviews, manufacturability and reliability improvements.
• Develop and improve production processes, assembly instructions, jigs, fixtures, test plans and quality checks.
• Support prototype builds and first production batches directly in the workshop, including root-cause analysis of build and field issues.
• Work with engineering and production on BOM accuracy, configuration control, traceability and supplier-related technical risks.
• Contribute to product compliance and technical documentation as appropriate, including CE/UKCA readiness.
• Help establish a pragmatic, repeatable risk and reliability engineering process suited to a growing hardware company.