Engineering Product Configuration Manager

Meta•Fremont, CA

4d•$179,000 - $249,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking a Principal-level Engineering Product Configuration Manager to lead configuration management strategy and governance across hardware and systems engineering programs within its Product Lifecycle Management organization. The role defines the authoritative framework for product configuration control, engineering change management, and bill of materials governance across consumer hardware, data center infrastructure, and emerging technology product lines. The manager serves as an organizational expert on configuration integrity, from early engineering development through mass production, partnering with hardware engineering, supply chain, commodity management, and manufacturing teams to ensure product definitions are accurate, controlled, and traceable throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in engineering product configuration management, engineering change management, or product lifecycle management within hardware, consumer electronics, or infrastructure systems development.
Experience establishing and governing bill of materials structures, part numbering systems, and revision control processes across large-scale, multidisciplinary hardware programs.
Experience leading configuration control boards or engineering change review processes at an organizational level, including cross-functional impact assessment across engineering, commodity management, supply chain, and manufacturing.
Experience with PLM systems such as Agile, Windchill, Arena, or equivalent platforms for configuration baseline management, engineering change workflows, and product structure governance.
Experience conducting configuration audits and ensuring product build conformance to approved design documentation throughout hardware product lifecycle phases, from development through mass production.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating configuration management processes with manufacturing execution systems and supply chain planning tools to support clear-to-build readiness and commodity sourcing decisions.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Experience managing configuration management programs for data center server hardware, consumer wearables, or other high-complexity technical hardware with rapid iteration cycles and large supplier ecosystems.
Familiarity with IPC-2578, EIA-649, or equivalent configuration management standards applied to commercial hardware or data center infrastructure development.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a relevant technical field.

Responsibilities

Define and own long-term product configuration management strategy and governance across concurrent hardware programs, including consumer devices, data center systems, and next-generation technology platforms.
Lead and evolve engineering change management processes, including change request evaluation policies, cross-functional impact assessment, and approval workflow governance.
Govern bill of materials accuracy, structure, and integrity across product lifecycle phases, partnering with mechanical, electrical, systems, and commodity engineering teams.
Establish and enforce configuration identification standards, part numbering schemas, revision control practices, and configuration baseline policies across engineering and manufacturing organizations.
Drive functional and physical configuration audits to verify product builds conform to approved design documentation, specifications, and regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with commodity management and supply chain teams to assess engineering change impacts on component availability, supplier qualifications, lead times, and inventory disposition strategies.
Identify systemic gaps in configuration control and lead cross-functional initiatives to improve traceability, reduce engineering change cycle time, and increase first-pass build accuracy.
Define PLM tooling strategy and drive adoption of configuration management systems across engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing teams.
Partner with program management and systems engineering leadership to align configuration baselines with program milestones, design freeze gates, and manufacturing readiness reviews.
Provide organizational-level configuration management guidance and influence engineering and sourcing leadership on process improvements and long-term governance roadmaps.