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Sr PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

Amazon· Hardware Development / Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability
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Austin, TX$159.2k - $215.3kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Manufacturing Engineer focusing on PCBA/SMT for Trainium-based AI servers, interfacing with system engineering and ODM/CM partners to ensure DFM/DFT, process capability, qualification, and robust manufacturing for high-volume production.

Responsibilities

  • - Work with the Design Engineering team to provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback. Identify and escalate PCBA manufacturing challenges early in product development.
  • Identify opportunities for risk reduction and simplification of PCBA manufacturing processes.
  • Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability, quality controls, materials characterization, and standardized rework practices.
  • Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology and methodologies to enhance PCBA quality, reliability, throughput, and cost.
  • Drive the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM. Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all production readiness deliverables are complete.
  • Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product quality
  • Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds. Work within Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, and Reliability Engineering to implement and optimize manufacturing processes and improve yields for production ramp.
  • Investigate failures/defects in production, test, and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence as part of continuous improvement efforts.
  • Actively monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp. Provide regular status reports of PCBAs progress from design to production.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
  • Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.

Qualifications

  • - 7+ years of root cause analysis and process design experience
  • - 7+ years of including new product introduction (NPI) experience
  • - Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or related STEM field
  • - Experience: 5+ to 8+ years in SMT and PCBA process engineering, including high-volume production.
  • - Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of SMT line processes (stencil, SPI, pick-and-place, reflow, AOI, X-ray).
  • - Manufacturing Knowledge: Expertise in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Testability (DFT).

Skills

Required:DFM/DFTSMT process engineeringRoot cause analysis
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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