Product Engineer - Manufacturing Operations
Owns data center hardware manufacturing from early builds through mass production, driving process readiness, yield, quality, engineering changes, and failure resolution with contract manufacturers and ODMs. Requires hands-on hardware manufacturing experience, strong root-cause skills, and willingness to travel up to 50%.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own hardware products at contract manufacturers and ODM partners from development through mass production.
- Gather manufacturing, test, and yield concerns and drive design fixes before each build.
- Audit assembly and test processes, set yield targets, confirm test coverage, and approve production transitions.
- Scale manufacturing across lines, sites, and manufacturers without yield or throughput regressions.
- Root-cause manufacturing and field failures and drive corrective actions with manufacturing partners.
- Lead engineering changes across manufacturers, including BOM and PLM updates, cut-in planning, partner training, validation, and field-failure monitoring.
- Bring manufacturing requirements and validation data into development-phase reviews.
- Travel to partner factories up to 50% of the time.
Requirements
- Experience carrying a hardware product from early builds through mass production at a contract manufacturer or ODM.
- Experience improving assembly and test processes and driving yield, quality, and schedule commitments.
- Proficiency with DFM, FMEA, SPC, 8D, or similar manufacturing and root-cause methods.
- Ability to translate failure data into clear decisions.
- Ability to write product-specific test plans and assess test coverage.
- Strong communication with partner engineers, operations staff, and leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or Materials Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Technical leadership for data center hardware programs such as servers, storage, switches, racks, or accelerators.
- Experience establishing a new manufacturing line or site or onboarding a second contract manufacturer.
- Experience with liquid-cooled or high-power-density rack systems.
- Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Experience with sourcing and supply chain teams on component qualification and multi-sourcing strategies.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD.
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
Skills
DFM, Fmea, Spc, 8D, Bom, Plm, Root Cause Analysis, Test Planning, Yield Analysis, Manufacturing Processes, Component Qualification, Supply Chain, Contract Manufacturing, Odm, Rma
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