Senior New Product Introduction Engineer

SambaNova Systems • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

At SambaNova Systems, getting a product from breakthrough concept to high-volume production is a mission-critical endeavor—and the Senior NPI Engineer is at the center of it. You will own the full product-realization journey: bridging design, supply chain, and contract manufacturing to ensure our next-generation AI server systems are built right, built reliably, and built at scale.
This role is ideal for a hands-on systems thinker who is equally comfortable on the factory floor and in a design review. You will work across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and supply chain teams—driving DFx influence early, solving hard manufacturing problems fast, and building the infrastructure that makes high-quality production repeatable. If you love the challenge of turning complex hardware into a scalable product, this is the role for you.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in NPI, manufacturing engineering, or hardware development.
• Proven track record taking products from prototype through high-volume manufacturing.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across hardware, test, platform, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.
• Expertise in PCB design considerations for DFM, DFT, and DFA.
• Experience performing hardware failure analysis and driving root cause and corrective action (RCCA).
• Familiarity with manufacturing test development, yield analysis, and reliability validation.
• Experience working with PLM systems such as Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience building supply chains, manufacturing processes, and test infrastructure for server or storage products in the IT industry.
• Experience in data analytics and quality data systems.
• Hands-on experience with manufacturing automation.
• Experience leveraging AI/GenAI tools to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Background developing manufacturing test systems, setting test limits, and ensuring end-to-end test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical interface with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and suppliers, owning the relationship from NPI through production.
• Drive rapid prioritization and resolution of manufacturing issues, field failures, and quality escapes.
• Engage early in the design cycle to assess new technologies and components for manufacturability risk.
• Ensure factory readiness through proper equipment qualification, process development, and closed-loop feedback from the production floor.
• Champion continuous improvement in yield and manufacturability across product generations.
• Own factory readiness and production build execution at global CM sites.
• Lead product bring-up support and provide hands-on training to CM teams.
• Drive escalations, remote troubleshooting, and onsite support as production demands require.
• Partner with Systems Engineering to define and validate manufacturing test coverage.
• Develop data strategies to monitor capacity, yield, and quality trends across production.
• Execute reliability testing required for product release milestones.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cycle time, lower cost, and minimize yield loss.
• Manage supplier PCNs proactively to prevent disruption to production schedules.
• Own BOM accuracy and manage ECOs/MCOs across both NPI and production phases.
• Ensure manufacturing documentation stays current and aligned with live builds.
• Collaborate with customer service and support teams to investigate and resolve field quality and performance issues.
• Qualify alternate components, new processes, and EOL replacements—including first article inspections to validate accuracy and quality.

Benefits

• SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
• We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees