Electrical Manufacturing NPI Engineer

About the role

Arista Networks, a leader in data-driven client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments, is hiring an Electrical Manufacturing NPI Engineer in Sydney. The role supports the development of new products and drives design for manufacturing excellence, working with a team of engineers on the specification, design, development and testing of hardware.

Key responsibilities

• Provide manufacturing input to schematic, placement and route reviews and evaluate technical readiness before release, delivering TR reviews with the cross-functional team.
• Design for DFx (DFC, DFQ, DFM, DFR, DFT) and perform new product and sustaining engineering functions.
• Handle BOM risk assessment, grading and second sourcing, skew lot testing of critical components, and manufacturer PCN execution and coordination.
• Interface with Engineering, Platform Engineering, Marketing, TAC and CM partners, and mentor contract manufacturing test engineers and debug technicians.
• Manage release of new products and technical changes to existing products through BOM management, ECO and deviation processes, and approve first articles of programmable devices and PCBs.
• Debug complex system-level problems, lead defect reduction and root cause analysis, and drive back fixes to engineering or the contract manufacturer.
• Improve manufacturing operations, reduce costs and improve consistency, and develop manufacturing process and best practice documentation.
• Conduct value engineering and cost reduction activities, and investigate new manufacturing technologies.

Required profile

• 3 to 8+ years of experience in NPI or sustaining engineering; college graduates with relevant intern experience will be considered.
• Expertise in networking products related to routing, switching and data centers.
• Working knowledge of IPC and JEDEC standards, and of lab equipment such as logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• BSEE or MSEE degree or equivalent.
• Australian citizenship, permanent residency or other legal right to work in Australia.

Required skills

• Design for DFx (DFM, DFT, DFQ, DFR, DFC)
• Complex fab structures (vivo, backdrill)
• System-level debugging and root cause analysis
• ECO, BOM and deviation processes (Agile experience a plus)
• Manufacturing, test, quality and reliability best practices