# Paul Guerra

> Joby Aviation

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/paulguerra

Customer oriented product development experience from concept phase through manufacturing.

Specialties: Design For Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

## Work Experience
### Ground Support Equipment Lead @ Joby Aviation
Jan 2022 – Present | San Carlos, California, United States

### Director Of Engineering @ Plenty
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Same great company and people, slightly bigger challenges.
Responsible for the following indoor agriculture equipment and the team that conceived, designed, manufactured, integrated, tested and deployed it:
-Environmental sensors (hardware, firmware)
-Computer vision system hardware
-Custom grow lighting systems (including luminaires, LED drivers and IOT controllers)
-Seedling and plant conveyance containers (think: automation-line pallets)
-PLM services for all engineers
-Hardware reliability lab

### Senior Engineering Manager @ Plenty
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | South San Francisco, CA
Designing, building, deploying and sustaining a team responsible for designing, building, deploying and sustaining indoor agriculture equipment.

### Senior Manager, Product Design Engineering @ ChargePoint
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | California
-Managed a team responsible for EV charging hardware thermal engineering and mechanical system
architecture
-Developed a 2 MW charging connector concept for electric vehicles and aircraft - debuted at Uber
Elevate 2018
-Developed bus and fleet vehicle charging system architecture and prototype
-Created a high voltage safety curriculum and trained the entire engineering organization

### Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering @ Tesla
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018: Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering
Built a team of 12 design engineers who designed and released to production new mobile, home and DC-fast charging equipment for Tesla customers foreign and domestic.  Also responsible for sustaining engineering for Tesla's worldwide fleet of Superchargers as well as all consumer charging accessories.

Feb 2014 - Dec 2015: Staff Mechanical Design Engineer
-Responsible for the development and demonstration of several autonomous charging system concepts.  
-Led a team that re-designed the Model X second row seat mechanism and released all parts to production.

April 2011 - Feb 2014: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
-Toyota Rav4 and Mercedes B-class battery module release engineer
-Interim Model S battery program manager

### Sr. Engineer / Project Manager @ Velomedix
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
-Disposable device design, validation and manufacturing
-Clinical trial support in hospitals worldwide

### Senior R&D Engineer @ SurgRx (Acquired by J&J Ethicon Endo Surgery)
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
-Concept and prototype design of the Ethicon ENSEAL G2
-Sustaining engineering for the ENSEAL 5mm line of electrosurgical products
-Design and validation work for the ENSEAL Universal electrosurgical generator

### Engineer @ Valleylab
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007
Design, manufacturing, validation, quality engineering and clinical support of the LigaSure Advance electrosurgical device.

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Server thermal testing and mechanical design engineering.

### Engineering Intern @ AMD
Jan 2001 – Jan 2001
Flash memory package manufacturing and quality engineering.

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Hewlett Packard
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
NetServer LT6000R part design and manufacturing.


## Education
### MS in Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

### BS in Mechanical Engineering
Santa Clara University

### Continuing Education
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paulguerra

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Last updated: 2026-04-13