Senior NPI Engineer – Electrical Engineering

Trackonomy • San Jose, CA

8h • Onsite

About The Position

Join the Trackonomy Team! At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. Join us to evolve professionally in a company that reshapes both industries and individuals. Connection & Community: You're essential to Trackonomy's mission, and every team member is regarded as a founder. Collectively, our goal is to make a lasting impact on the world, making every endeavor at Trackonomy a meaningful journey. Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from our seasoned leaders. Your potential and passion define your trajectory here. We value innovation and offer unparalleled opportunities, making your career journey transformative. At Trackonomy, your growth is multifaceted. Collaborate and learn directly from senior leaders across various departments. Here, your potential—fueled by capability, passion, and results—determines the scope of your role. At Trackonomy, merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience. It's a level playing field, offering unique opportunities not found elsewhere. Impact: Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world. From fire prevention to enhanced security, our innovations don't just change industries; they save lives. Join us to be part of meaningful change. About Trackonomy At Trackonomy, we are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects. Our goal is to bring inanimate objects to life, giving them the ability to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Envision a world where our devices seamlessly integrate with every physical entity, facilitating a global conversation among them. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time. Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC. Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. Are you ready to be a part of the next chapter in Silicon Valley's hyper-growth IoT success story? Summary: We are seeking a Senior NPI Electrical Engineer to lead new hardware products from prototype through high-volume manufacturing. This role owns electrical readiness across the NPI lifecycle, including design validation, failure analysis, and production test strategy, with responsibility for successful transfer to both in-house manufacturing and offshore partners (CMs, OEMs, ODMs). You will work hands-on in builds while driving cross-functional execution to ensure products are robust, testable, and scalable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 5-7 years of experience in electrical engineering, with strong focus on NPI, manufacturing, or product transfer
• Proven experience scaling hardware products from prototype to mass production, including work with offshore manufacturers
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuits, embedded systems, and system-level integration
• Proficient with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, power supplies) for hands-on debugging
• Experience with schematic and PCB tools (e.g., Altium, OrCAD) and design reviews
• Experience developing manufacturing test solutions, including fixture design, test coverage, and automation
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages for test automation and data analysis
• Familiarity with communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, USB, etc.)
• Working knowledge of DFM, DFA, and DFT principles
• Strong ownership and ability to drive execution across complex, cross-functional programs
• Excellent analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem solving
• Clear and effective communicator, including with executive stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity startup environments
• Willingness to travel to manufacturing sites as needed

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual in Spanish or Chinese preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead NPI builds (EVT → DVT → PVT → ramp), ensuring electrical and manufacturing readiness for production
• Drive product transfer to internal manufacturing and external partners, aligning on test strategy, yield targets, quality standards, and build process
• Provide hands-on electrical support during builds, including debugging failures across PCBA assembly, system integration, and test
• Perform deep root cause analysis on prototype and production issues; drive corrective actions across design, quality, and manufacturing teams
• Define, develop, and deploy production test strategies (functional, ICT, system-level), with strong emphasis on coverage, scalability, and reliability
• Design, validate, and maintain test fixtures, equipment, and PCBA programming stations to ensure consistent production performance
• Work with NPI Software Engineer to develop and maintain Python (or similar) scripts for automated testing, programming, and data collection
• Partner closely with technicians and production teams to resolve issues and implement repeatable, operator-friendly processes
• Review schematics and PCB layouts; provide DFM/DFT feedback to improve manufacturability, testability, and reliability
• Analyze yield, test, and field return data to drive continuous improvement in product quality and performance (including DPPM reduction)
• Support ECO implementation and maintain clear, accurate NPI and test documentation
• Collaborate on field failure investigations and customer-reported issues, ensuring learnings are fed back into design and manufacturing

Benefits

• Employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation
• Opportunities for professional evolution
• Meaningful journey with a company that reshapes industries and individuals
• Connection & Community: Every team member is regarded as a founder
• Collective goal to make a lasting impact on the world
• Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from seasoned leaders
• Potential and passion define your trajectory
• Unparalleled opportunities for innovation
• Transformative career journey
• Multifaceted growth
• Learn directly from senior leaders across various departments
• Merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience
• Level playing field, offering unique opportunities
• Impactful tech solutions that better our world
• Part of meaningful change

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees