SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.
You'll join the New Product Introduction team within SambaNova's hardware operations organization. The team takes AI server systems from prototype through high-volume production at global contract manufacturers, owning manufacturability, test coverage, yield, and quality, and working closely with electrical, mechanical, firmware, and supply chain teams to get each new product built at scale.
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ResponsibilitiesThe Senior New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer plays a critical role in the product-realization process by bridging product design, supply chain, and scalable contract manufacturing. This position ensures that innovative product concepts become reliable, manufacturable, and cost‑effective realities. As an experienced technical leader, you will collaborate with cross functional teams including electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers to guide products from prototype to mass production. This role suits a hands‑on systems thinker who thrives at the intersection of engineering disciplines and manufacturing operations.
Manufacturing & Quality Leadership
- Act as the primary interface with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and suppliers
- Drive prioritization and resolution of manufacturing issues, field failures, and quality concerns
Design for Manufacturability (DFx)
- Influence product design early by assessing new technologies and components
- Ensure manufacturing readiness through proper equipment, processes, and factory feedback loops
- Drive continuous improvements in yield and manufacturability
Product Readiness & Production Execution
- Own factory readiness and production builds at global CMs
- Support product bring-up and provide training to CM teams
- Lead escalations, remote troubleshooting, and onsite support as needed
Test Strategy & Reliability
- Partner with Systems Engineering to define manufacturing test coverage
- Develop data strategies to monitor capacity, yield, and quality
- Execute reliability testing required for product release
Supply Chain Optimization
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cycle time, cost, and yield loss
- Manage supplier PCNs to prevent production disruption
Sustaining Engineering
- Own BOM accuracy and manage ECOs/MCOs across NPI and production
- Ensure documentation remains aligned with manufacturing builds
Customer & Field Issue Resolution
- Collaborate with customer service teams to resolve field quality and performance issues
Change Qualification & Continuity
- Qualify alternate components, new processes, and EOL replacements
- Perform first article inspections to validate accuracy and quality of changes
- Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in new product introduction, manufacturing engineering, or hardware development
- Experience supporting products from prototype through high-volume manufacturing
- Strong collaboration 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 actions
- Familiarity with manufacturing test development, yield analysis, and reliability validation
- Experience working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems such as Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
- 10 years of experience working at a company developing supply chains, manufacturing and test for new server and storage type products for the IT industry
- Experience in data analytics and quality data systems
- Experience with automation in a manufacturing environment
- Experience leveraging AI/GenAI for process efficiency and effectiveness
- Familiarity developing manufacturing test systems, setting test limits, and ensuring test coverage
Base Salary Range:
Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
EEO Policy
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in new product introduction, manufacturing engineering, or hardware development
- Experience supporting products from prototype through high-volume manufacturing
- Strong collaboration 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 actions
- Familiarity with manufacturing test development, yield analysis, and reliability validation
- Experience working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems such as Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
- 10 years of experience developing supply chains, manufacturing and test for server and storage products
- Experience in data analytics and quality data systems
- Experience with automation in a manufacturing environment
- Experience leveraging AI/GenAI for process efficiency and effectiveness
- Familiarity developing manufacturing test systems, setting test limits, and ensuring test coverage
What We Do
AI is changing the world and at SambaNova, we believe that you don’t need unlimited resources to take advantage of the most advanced, valuable AI capabilities - capabilities that are helping organizations explore the universe, find cures for cancer, and giving companies access to insights that provide a competitive edge. We deliver the world’s fastest and only complete AI solution for enterprises and governments with world-record inference performance and accuracy. Powered by the SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), organizations can build a technology backbone for the next decade of AI innovation with SambaNova Suite. Our fully integrated hardware-software system, DataScale®, enables organizations to train, fine-tune, and deploy the most demanding AI workloads using the largest and most challenging models. Most recently, with the launch of our newest offering, SambaNova Cloud, developers can supercharge AI-powered applications on Llama 3.2 models. SambaNova was founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, California, by a group of industry luminaries, business leaders, and world-class innovators who understand AI. Today, we’ve built an incredibly smart and motivated team dedicated to making a lasting impact on the industry and equipping our customers to thrive in the new era of AI.
Why Work With Us
As a talent first company, we aim to hire the greatest and most innovative minds in the industry- driving the next generation of AI computing where no barrier is too high and the possibilities are truly limitless. We encourage our peers to take risks and take the initiative to make a lasting impact on the AI and ML industries.
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