The era of pervasive AI has arrived. In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally transform their businesses and operations at scale.
SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations. Powered by the intelligent SN40L chip, the SambaNova Suite is a fully integrated platform, delivered on-premises or in the cloud, combined with state-of-the-art open-source models that can be easily and securely fine-tuned using customer data for greater accuracy. Once adapted with customer data, customers retain model ownership in perpetuity, so they can turn generative AI into one of their most valuable assets.
About the Role
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.
What You’ll Do
Manufacturing & Quality Leadership
- 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.
Design for Manufacturability (DFx)
- 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.
Product Readiness & Production Execution
- 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.
Test Strategy & Reliability
- 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.
Supply Chain Optimization
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cycle time, lower cost, and minimize yield loss.
- Manage supplier PCNs proactively to prevent disruption to production schedules.
Sustaining Engineering
- Own BOM accuracy and manage ECOs/MCOs across both NPI and production phases.
- Ensure manufacturing documentation stays current and aligned with live builds.
Field Issue Resolution & Change Qualification
- 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.
What You’ll Bring
Required
- 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.
Preferred
- 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.
Why SambaNova Systems
SambaNova is building the AI infrastructure that the world’s most demanding workloads run on—from chip design through full-stack software. Our NPI team plays a foundational role in that mission: the products you help bring to market will power AI deployments at a scale few companies can match. You’ll work alongside world-class engineers, with the resources, urgency, and technical depth that come with being at the frontier of AI compute.
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.
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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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