Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, Design for Manufacturability & Automation, Annapurna AI Systems Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

• Key job responsibilities
• Design for Manufacturability
• Own DFM, DFA, and DFT review as a gate prior to drawing release and prior to NPI build, across accelerator cards, baseboards, power distribution, interconnect, and rack-level assembly.
• Perform tolerance stack-up and GD&T analysis, and establish tolerances that a partner factory can hold at Cpk ≥ 1.33 at volume — not tolerances that are theoretically correct and practically unachievable.
• Reconcile component supplier specifications against AWS drawings before release, and resolve conflicts where a supplier's requirement is tighter than the drawing allows.
• Design process margin into the product: solder paste volume against land pattern and via structure, insertion force windows, retention features, and clearance for automated handling.
• Provide design feedback on connector retention, contact-level defect modes, fastener and cable access, and serviceability in the rack.
• Build and maintain a versioned DFM design-rule set that carries across product generations, so each program does not relearn the same lessons.
• Manufacturing Automation and Metrology
• Drive measurement system analysis across partners: gauge design, gauge R&R, correlation between AWS and supplier measurement, and elimination of methodology differences that make cross-site data non-comparable.
• Specify and deploy automation that removes manual handling and manual data collection from the line, and automate the capture of measurement and process data into SPC.
• Own test fixture and tooling design, calibration, and health management, including detection of fixtures that induce false failures.
• Assess new ODM lines and new sites for process capability before qualification, and define the equipment and process requirements to close gaps.
• Program and Partner Execution
• Partner with hardware and silicon design teams during development to influence the design while influence is still cheap.
• Work directly with ODM and JDM process engineering at multiple sites to implement process changes, and verify in production that they held.
• Drive design and process changes through DCN and ECN, including propagation across all build sites.
• Build mechanisms — control plans, capability studies, design-rule checks, runbooks — that continue to work at sites you are not present at.
• About the team
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering
• 7+ years of manufacturing engineering experience on high-volume electronics or server hardware, including ownership of Design for Manufacturability
• Experience with SMT/PCBA manufacturing and system-level assembly at a contract manufacturer, ODM, or JDM
• Experience with tolerance analysis and GD&T, and with establishing manufacturable tolerances validated by process capability data
• Experience specifying or deploying automated inspection or manufacturing automation on a production line

None flagged.