Senior PCBA Manufacturing Engineer for AI Server Production

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Annapurna Labs seeks a Sr PCBA Manufacturing Engineer within Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability to drive PCB/PCBA DFM feedback, improve yields, and lead manufacturing readiness across ODMs and CMs for AI server platforms.

You will partner with design, process, and supply chain teams to reduce risk, define test coverage, and scale production from prototype to mass production in a fast-paced cloud hardware environment.

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 DFM and DFT.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Design Engineering team to provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback.
• Identify opportunities for risk reduction and simplification of PCBA manufacturing processes.
• Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology to enhance PCBA quality and throughput.
• Drive the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM and define readiness requirements.
• Lead identifying and validating product/component risks with test methodology and coverage.
• Drive closure of operational issues during pre-production and improve yields for production ramp.
• Investigate failures/defects in production and mitigate root causes to prevent recurrence.
• Monitor success of products and provide status reports from design to production.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
• Work with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability.
• Enforce DFM, DFA and DFS principles with system engineering teams.
• Develop or adapt manufacturing process at ODM/CM, including fixture requirements and test methodology.
• Drive 1st pass yields and efficiency from prototype through ramp.
• Support cost reduction and sustaining activities.

Skills

Root cause analysis

NPI experience

SMT/PCBA

DFM/DFT

DFx

Test methods

Education

Bachelors in engineering

Tools

PLM/PDM systems

ERP/MES systems

Job description

Amazon’s Annapurna Labs seeks a Sr PCBA Manufacturing Engineer within Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability to drive PCB/PCBA DFM feedback, improve yields, and lead manufacturing readiness across ODMs and CMs for AI server platforms.

You will partner with design, process, and supply chain teams to reduce risk, define test coverage, and scale production from prototype to mass production in a fast-paced cloud hardware environment.