NPI Hardware Productization Engineer
About the role
What You'll Do
In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.
You will play a meaningful role in bringing innovative sensor products from concept to production. This position sits at the intersection of Engineering and Manufacturing, ensuring new products are manufacturable, scalable, reliable, and ready for successful customer deployment!
Job Duties, but not limited to:
- Lead NPI activities from prototype through production release
- Drive the transition of new products from engineering development into manufacturing
- Coordinate prototype, pilot, qualification, and production builds
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production readiness and successful ramp-up
- Develop and implement build plans, validation activities, and manufacturing readiness reviews
- Support first-article builds, product qualifications, and production launches
- Drive Design for Excellence (DFx) initiatives, including manufacturability, assembly, testability, reliability, serviceability, quality, and cost
- Identify technical risks and implement mitigation plans throughout the product lifecycle
- Work with multi-functional teams to resolve issues discovered during builds and early production
- Support manufacturing test strategies and product validation efforts
- Improve yield, quality, and production efficiency through data-driven problem solving
- Ensure manufacturing documentation is complete and ready for release of BOMs, work instructions, test procedures, etc..
- Partner closely with Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Suppliers
- Support supplier and contract manufacturer engagement during product development and ramp
- Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions for product and manufacturing issues
- Communicate technical status, risks, and recommendations across multiple teams
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Material Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering
- Experience in electrical hardware development and productization
- Proven experience with NPI, pilot builds, and manufacturing ramp-up
- Demonstrated success taking hardware designs from concept through manufacturing release
- Experience with microelectronics, semiconductor devices, advanced packaging and electronic assembly manufacturing processes
- Strong hands-on experience with lab equipment
- Experience working with global suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Familiarity with semiconductor equipment, industrial systems, or high-reliability products
- Understanding of regulatory, safety, and compliance requirements is a plus
Ideal Candidate You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys taking products from development into production. You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving manufacturing and product challenges, and are energized by working across teams to launch innovative hardware products successfully!
Minimum Qualifications
About KLA
Not included in the source posting: benefits.
Skills
Who can apply
The employer didn't state any visa, work authorization, citizenship or clearance requirements in this posting. Confirm with the employer before applying.
Read automatically from the employer's posting text. Always confirm with the employer — requirements can change after a job is published.