Manufacturing NPI Engineer

Penguin Solutions•Newark, NJ

10h•Onsite

About The Position

At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale. Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision. At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact. The New Product Introduction Engineer will lead continuous process improvement efforts, improve cost effectiveness and quality of Integrated Memory products. The position requires excellent problem-solving skills, use of quality tools, technical expertise in electronics manufacturing and system building of servers, storage and networking equipment.

Requirements

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience
3-5 years of relevant experience
PCBA Assembly Experiences
Ability to drive root cause analysis and corrective action implementation
Ability to select and qualify engineering materials such as thermal interface material for heat sinks, adhesives for electronics, underfill materials, conformal coating, tooling needs.
Demonstrated ability to perform data-driven decision making using Six Sigma tools and methodology to analyze process performance, identify root causes, and deliver measurable improvements.
Good communication skills to interact with customers

Responsibilities

Support new product introduction into the manufacturing environment from prototype phase to high volume manufacturing.
Drive process development & optimization, through design of experiments, for diverse set of products including high density memory modules, embedded flash assemblies and 3D packages.
Solve complex process engineering problems in a creative and effective way and drive solutions through successful implementation.
Perform DFM reviews across a broad range of products and provide technical guidance to engineering teams worldwide.
Provide technical support on NPI and Process related issues to internal as well external customers.
Support product reliability & qualification efforts.
To drive process improvements for SMT manufacturing, mechanical assembly operations, PCBA rework process and additional engineering functions
To develop new capabilities for business development and deployment of new equipment for production
To develop, implement and monitor quality control activities for manufacturing processes
To work with Design, Manufacturing, Test, and Quality teams for enhancing product and process quality
To meet regulatory requirements for SMART products, labeling requirements, packaging needs, product and process qualification tasks
To work with customers, suppliers and external labs on quality issues and failure analysis efforts
Use of quality tools and lean tools for waste elimination and productivity increase