Principal Product Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$136,880 - $205,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Principal Product Engineer in the Networking and Compute Product Engineering organization, you will provide technical leadership during product development and NPI to transition technologies into production-ready silicon. The team connects architecture, silicon behavior, manufacturing reality, and business constraints across enterprise, cloud, and compute platforms.
What you'll do
- Drive technical leadership from development through production, ensuring decisions support robust and scalable productization. - Serve as a primary technical stakeholder during NPI, guiding teams through characterization, debug, qualification, and readiness discussions. - Align and influence cross-functional engineering teams toward full-closure solutions during complex problem-solving efforts. - Define, quantify, and defend product quality, reliability, performance, and cost targets based on data and system-level impact. - Lead technical risk assessments and tradeoff discussions across engineering, operations, and management. - Represent Product Engineering in customer interactions and internal leadership forums, articulating status, risk, and recommended paths forward.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 10–15 years of experience, or a Master’s/PhD with 5–10 years of experience. - Deep understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle with the ability to drive technical decisions for scalable productization. - Expertise in structured problem solving and Root Cause Analysis across silicon, test, and manufacturing environments. - Hands-on experience using ATE for silicon characterization, analysis, and debug. - Solid foundation in applied statistics for product characterization, yield improvement, and quality analysis. - Working knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools such as JMP and SiliconDash (or equivalent platforms).
Nice to have
- Experience with 93K or Teradyne Tester platform. - Interest in process automation and workflow optimization.
Skills: ATE, NPI, silicon characterization, yield improvement, Teradyne 93K
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 80-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
154
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$176k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Marvell Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (154 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 154 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 59 | 2244 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 28 d | 80 d (−52 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $176k |
Skills observed across this category: ATE, NPI, silicon characterization, yield improvement, Teradyne 93K
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 105 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 174 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 83 d
- Entegris · 8 open roles · median 94 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 53 d
How we counted: 154 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.