Principal Product Engineer - San Jose, California, United States
$1 - $999,999 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) and SambaRack hardware platforms.
About the role
This role is for a Principal Product Engineer within SambaNova's New Product Introduction team, bridging product design, supply chain, and scalable contract manufacturing. You will focus on the RDU and SambaRack hardware, ensuring manufacturability, test coverage, yield, and quality.
What you'll do
- Act as the primary interface with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and suppliers.
- Drive prioritization and resolution of manufacturing issues, field failures, and quality concerns.
- Influence product design early by assessing new technologies and components.
- Own factory readiness and production builds at global CMs.
- Partner with Systems Engineering to define manufacturing test coverage.
- Qualify alternate components, new processes, and EOL replacements.
What you'll need
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
Skills: NPI, manufacturing readiness, DFM, yield, contract manufacturers, hardware failure analysis
This role has been open 60 days — well below the 79-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
151
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$175k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SambaNova | All employers we track in this specialty (151 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 151 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 4 | 2226 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 79 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $175k |
Skills observed across this category: NPI, manufacturing readiness, DFM, yield, contract manufacturers, hardware failure analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 50 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 170 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 79 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 161 d
- Entegris · 9 open roles · median 87 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 31 d
How we counted: 151 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.