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# Solutions Design Engineer at Instrumental, Inc.

- **Company:** Instrumental, Inc.
- **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/instrumental-inc-/am9icG9zdDqZgveig9s6kFKNA7doPgY0

## Job description

Instrumental technology is used by the world’s most admired electronics brands, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, and Meta, to accelerate new product development and improve production yields. Our technology leverages AI from data generated on the manufacturing floor to automate failure identification and resolution, improving yield, quality, and time to market. In the past few quarters, our technology has become mission-critical for the manufacture of AI servers. We’re rapidly growing our global presence to enable deeper integrations into our customers’ complex manufacturing environments.

As a Solutions Design Engineer, you will work with Instrumental’s global go-to-market team to deliver technical solutions for various applications across leading electronics brands. This is a unique role that will leverage your hardware engineering background, technical curiosity, and interpersonal skills to directly influence how our customers build their products and help Instrumental scale at critical sites in Asia, with a focus on Taiwan and Vietnam. You'll gain expertise in AI applications in manufacturing while working closely with customers and our internal teams to implement high-impact solutions.

You will additionally be a key player in ensuring that our solutions not only meet immediate technical requirements but also align seamlessly with customer business goals. Our team doesn’t wait for things to happen; we make them happen. Successful team members are problem solvers and adaptable – when it’s not in the playbook, they create the next play. When there is no playbook, they start one. Most of our go-to-market team is comprised of experienced engineers who understand the time and manual effort required in manufacturing and have joined the business to increase their impact on our industry.

## What you’ll do

- Technical Validation: Work with sales to validate the technical scope of opportunities for new and existing customers, considering their business goals and current line constraints. You’ll develop a deep understanding of our partners’ production line structures, initiate corresponding standardized inspection frameworks tailored to different line configurations, enabling a unified, simplified, and easily adoptable product inspection process.
- Station Requirements & Implementation: Scope Instrumental solutions, whether that’s leveraging our own station hardware, optics, and nests or collaborating closely with a third-party systems integrator to work Instrumental into complex automation equipment.The Solutions Architect must be comfortable reviewing automation architecture, assessing integration risk, and influencing mechanical and controls design prior to fabrication.
- Oversee Implementation: Guide and mentor the project team through specification, design, development, and deployment to ensure customer requirements are met. This role may require up to 80% of time spent in factories in the Taoyuan/Hsinchu area and other domestic travels if needed, and as much as 20% international travel to support customers elsewhere.
- Customer Communication: Throughout these projects, you’ll serve as a technical interface with customers and contract manufacturers, leveraging deep engineering expertise to explain design rationale, trade-off  and constraints, while synthesizing stakeholder feedback to drive designs toward robust and manufacturable solutions.

## Who you are

- B.S. in engineering (required)
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a product design, process, or manufacturing engineer
- Industry-specific experience in one or more of: consumer electronics, AI infrastructure, automotive, or another highly related field (you can make your case).
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, information systems, change management, system implementation, and best practices during development, new product introduction (NPI), and mass production
- Experience working with systems integrators on automation projects
- A desire to be customer-facing, with a customer-success mindset
- Demonstrated ability to be successful in a startup environment or as an intrapreneur in a larger organization
- Excellent written and spoken Mandarin and English communication skills

We’re a growing team that consistently works collaboratively, supports each other, and is highly energized by the opportunity for large impact. We actively work to promote an inclusive environment, valuing passion and the ability to learn. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description!

## About Instrumental, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Instrumental provides a Manufacturing Engineering Control Platform that uses AI and data to help electronics companies optimize production, reduce waste, and accelerate new product introductions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky (CEO) and Samuel Weiss (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Manufacturing Technology (Hardware + Software + AI), Industrial IoT, Electronics Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise; electronics brands and contract manufacturers producing complex consumer and mission-critical electronics.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To eliminate $8 trillion in manufacturing waste by providing core infrastructure that empowers engineering and operations teams to design, execute, and operate with world-class efficiency [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/company/).

## Products & Services
- **Manufacturing Acceleration Platform**: A cloud-based platform that captures inspection, test, and process signals across factory lines, turning them into an engineering dataset for analysis. Key capabilities include:
    - **Discovery-Driven Inspection**: Identifies previously unknown failure modes early in production before they impact yield.
    - **Production Controls**: Deploys tests to intercept known failures and synchronize inspection standards across factories.
    - **Accelerated Failure Analysis**: Uses AI to eliminate potential root causes in minutes, saving up to 90% of time per analysis.
    - **Factory Signal Capture**: Connects data from multiple factories into a single, shared engineering dataset.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$80.3M** across 5 rounds [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.).
    - Seed (2015): $2.8M led by Root Ventures, First Round Capital.
    - Series A (2017): $7.5M led by Root Ventures, Eclipse.
    - Series B (2020): $20M led by Canaan Partners.
    - Series C (2022): $50M led by BAM Elevate.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BAM Elevate, Canaan Partners, Root Ventures, First Round Capital, Eclipse.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Headcount**: 70 employees (+10.5% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.).
    - **Customer Wins**: Serves major brands like **NVIDIA** (sped up final assembly by 14 days), **Meta** (saved 900+ engineering weeks annually across 7 programs), and **Toast** (achieved 5.3X ROI) [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/).
    - **Active Hiring**: 22 open positions as of the latest data [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: Founded by ex-Apple product design engineers who experienced the manufacturing waste problem firsthand, giving them unique insight and credibility [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/company/).
- **Proven ROI**: Platform delivers measurable, large-scale results for top-tier global brands (e.g., 5.3X ROI, saving hundreds of engineering weeks).
- **First-of-its-Kind Platform**: Instrumental’s platform is described as the "world’s first Manufacturing Engineering Control Platform," combining AI with factory-floor signals in a way that hasn't been done before [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/company/).
- **Strong Customer Base**: Counts industry leaders like Axon, Bose, Cisco, Meta, SolarEdge, and ChargePoint as customers [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.).

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to capture more factory signals, deepening AI capabilities for predictive and prescriptive analytics, and expanding its customer base within the complex electronics manufacturing industry.
- **Direction for growth**: Continuing to build the "engineering system for manufacturing" to standardize production knowledge, enable faster scaling, and improve collaboration across global factory networks [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company is tackling a massive, tangible problem ($8T in waste) with a clear goal to cut it in half. Employees can see the direct impact of their work on global manufacturing efficiency.
- **Culture**: Described as "collaborative, passionate, transparent, and impact-driven." Core values include "Play to Win" and "Default to Action," with a focus on forming authentic connections and celebrating wins [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/life-at-instrumental/).
- **Global & Distributed Team**: Offices in Palo Alto, CA and Shenzhen, China. The team works closely across locations, with a strong Slack culture and weekly All-Hands lunches [instrumental.com](https://instrumental.com/careers/).
- **Strong Talent Pool**: Team members come from top-tier companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Foxconn, and Fictiv, indicating a high-caliber peer group [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.).
- **Technical Challenges**: Engineers work on a unique blend of hardware, software, and AI problems at the intersection of physical product design and digital data platforms.

## Sources
1. [Instrumental Company Page](https://instrumental.com/company/)
2. [Instrumental Product Page](https://instrumental.com/)
3. [Instrumental Careers Page](https://instrumental.com/careers/)
4. [Instrumental Life Page](https://instrumental.com/life-at-instrumental/)
5. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instrumental-inc.)

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