# Greg Nichols

> Launch & scale up of new products

Location: Lafayette, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gregnichols

Engineering manager with 10+ years experience with expertise in equipment design and procurement, manufacturing process development, NPI, and engineering project management.

## Work Experience
### Staff Manufacturing Engineer @ Figure
Jan 2025 – Present

### Director of Manufacturing Engineering @ Lithos Energy, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering, Battery @ Rivian
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Director Of Engineering @ Liminal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Senior Manufacturing Engineer @ Bellwether Coffee
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, Ca

### Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Battery @ Tesla
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Manufacturing Engineer - Battery @ Tesla Motors
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Project Engineer, Product Design @ Rainin Instrument LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Design high quality, hand held precision fluid handling instruments for use in biotech, chemical, and medical industries.

### Project Engineer, Automation @ Rainin Instrument LLC
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Mechanical Engineer @ Rainin Instrument LLC
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Design and build factory automation equipment for use in class 100k clean room.

### Consulting Engineer @ Amber Kinetics, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Provided engineering and business development support to founders while launching Berkeley Energy Science Corporation which later merged with Amber Kinetics.  Writer for an awarded $1.8M California Energy Commission grant.

### Development Engineer @ Romny Scientific
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
•Responsible for development of high performance thermo-electric materials.
•Design of Experiments.  Run tests.  Analyze resulting data.

### Laboratory Assistant @ University of California, San Diego
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
•Primarily responsible for fabrication of light weight, high strength laminates
•Exposed to Carbon Nanotube, Shape Memory Alloy, and Metallic Glass projects

### Engineering Intern @ Intel
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
•Assisted in design and fabrication of automated test system


## Education
### MS in Industrial Engineering Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley

### BS in Mechanical Engineering
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/greg-nichols-628b39a

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Last updated: 2026-04-13