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Product Engineering NPI Team Lead

Fluidstack· Development
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New York, NY, Phoenix, AZ, Austin, TX$208k - $263kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role leading the NPI (New Product Introduction) team to take hardware from design release to repeatable production across Fluidstack product lines, with end-to-end ownership, program visibility, and cross-product portfolio management in high-volume AI compute and power equipment projects.

Responsibilities

  • Build the NPI process from scratch: gate definitions, readiness criteria, and ECO and change discipline that hold across products ranging from racks to MV switchgear.
  • Lead and develop the NPI TPM team, allocating 3 TPMs across 6 product families and making the tradeoffs explicit when coverage gets thin.
  • Own portfolio-level program visibility, with status and risk reporting rigorous enough that leadership hears about problems from you before anyone else.
  • Set the transfer-to-manufacturing standards with manufacturing engineering, defining exit criteria a program must clear before production takes ownership.
  • Hold the RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads so ownership never blurs and no decision waits on a debate about whose call it is.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in NPI or program management at a hardware OEM or ODM, with 3+ years leading TPM or NPI teams.
  • You've built stage-gate processes yourself, defining the gates, readiness criteria, and ECO discipline, not just operated inside a process someone else designed.
  • You've led TPM or NPI teams and developed the people in them, not just assigned their work.
  • You've managed programs spanning multiple product lines simultaneously and can show how you kept them all honest.
  • You've killed a program too late at least once, and you can name the signal you missed and what you watch for now.
  • You keep NPI lightweight enough that engineers use it instead of routing around it.

Skills

Required:NPI managementStage-gate process designTeam leadership and development
Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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