Senior Product Development Engineer - Datacenter Boards
$136,000–$258,750 year
On-site · Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Product Development Engineer for Datacenter Boards leading module and board NPI from first article to mass production, accountable for yield targets, quality gates, and on-time delivery; collaborates across Engineering, Mechanical, Thermal, PM, and Operations to surface risks and drive mitigation; defines and improves manufacturing test plans, partners with CM sites worldwide to qualify and scale solutions; analyzes volume manufacturing data via scripting and analytics to drive quick decisions; performs deep root-cause analysis across silicon, PCB, and system layers and translates findings into DFM/DFT improvements for design teams; communicates complex technical data to engineering and business audiences; travel up to 15%.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in product engineering, product development, manufacturing, or validation of PCBs, silicon, or complex systems experience
- Hands-on depth in two or more of: server architectures and datacenter system integration; PCB/board design, SMT, and assembly process engineering; board-level or post-silicon validation and characterization; high-speed interface validation (PCIe, NVLink, Ethernet, PAM4); Power Integrity analysis and thermal characterization; or complex test setup design and automation
- History of leading complex GPU or board-level projects to mass production on schedule with high quality and yield
- Ability to diagnose and resolve multi-disciplinary problems spanning silicon, board, firmware, and system layers
- Clear understanding of testing strategy economics — coverage, test-time, and escape rate relate to yield and cost outcomes
- Willingness to travel up to 15%, domestically and internationally
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of PCBA manufacturing processes, mechanical tolerances, and system-level assembly constraints
- Background coordinating cross-functional debug efforts across silicon, board, and systems
- Experience qualifying advanced memory solutions (HBM, LPDDR) or high-speed SerDes interfaces
- Python or scripting experience applied to manufacturing analytics, test automation, or data pipelines
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