Responsibilities
THE ROLE:
As a Senior Mechanical Product Engineer in the Data Center Platform Engineering Group (DPEG) Mechanical Engineering department, you will serve as a key technical interface between design engineering and manufacturing for AMD Data Center GPU products. This is not a primary mechanical design role; instead, the position requires deep understanding of AMD mechanical architectures, assemblies, tolerances, and validation intent to ensure that manufacturing and production partners can correctly build, inspect, and test hardware at scale.
You will help drive manufacturing readiness for mechanical aspects of the product, translate design intent into clear production test and debug expectations, and help resolve issues discovered during bring-up, pilot builds, and high-volume manufacturing. To succeed in this role, you will work cross-functionally with mechanical design, board engineering, package engineering, validation, quality, operations, suppliers, and manufacturing partners, while influencing execution across internal and external teams.
THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with excellent communication, planning, and problem-solving skills, and with the credibility to work effectively across engineering, operations, and external manufacturing teams. They should be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, making sound technical judgments with incomplete information, and driving issues to closure across organizational boundaries.
This person will combine solid mechanical engineering fundamentals with practical manufacturing knowledge, including how hardware is built, tested, debugged, and ramped into production. Experience working with server, rack, and data center hardware, along with familiarity with global manufacturing environments, is highly desirable.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- The Senior Mechanical Product Engineer in the DPEG Mechanical Engineering team will play a critical role in ensuring successful product industrialization and production execution. The successful candidate will partner closely with design teams in Austin and with manufacturing partners to ensure mechanical design intent is clearly understood and translated into robust manufacturing, inspection, and test processes. This role requires strong technical depth, cross-functional influence, and a systems-level perspective spanning silicon integration, board and system hardware, manufacturing process readiness, and field-relevant failure analysis. The position is ideally based in Austin, Texas to enable close collaboration with the core design team and a local manufacturing site, with periodic travel to Asia—especially Taiwan—including potential multi-week trips during key build and ramp phases.
- Core responsibilities include understanding mechanical designs well enough to identify critical-to-function features, reviewing manufacturing and test plans for alignment with design intent, and enabling production partners to correctly inspect, assemble, and test AMD hardware. The role will support debug and root-cause analysis of issues found during prototype builds, qualification, and manufacturing, and will help drive corrective actions across design, quality, supplier, and factory teams. This person will also help define readiness criteria, close manufacturability gaps, and improve processes that increase product robustness, test coverage, and speed to production. The role requires initiative, strong independent judgment, and the ability to make technical tradeoffs while balancing schedule, quality, and manufacturability.
- The selected candidate should have the ability to influence technical direction and execution across internal teams and external partners, communicate clearly with both engineering and manufacturing audiences, and drive closure on complex production issues. They will be expected to identify systemic gaps, champion continuous improvement, and introduce scalable approaches that improve manufacturing readiness, test effectiveness, and overall product quality.
- The following defines successful performance criteria for the position: Manufacturing Readiness and Commercialization
- – The Senior Mechanical Product Engineer will bridge design, product development, and manufacturing execution to ensure products are ready for successful ramp and sustained production. The role will help translate design intent into factory-ready processes, test methods, and debug plans that support commercially viable delivery in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement
- – The role is expected to drive improvements in manufacturing support processes, issue resolution workflows, and production test effectiveness while helping teams execute with speed, quality, and discipline during product introduction and ramp.
- PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: The Senior Mechanical Product Engineer must have demonstrated technical leadership, sound engineering judgment, and a track record of improving how complex hardware products transition from design into manufacturing. The selected candidate will use proven engineering and productization skills to strengthen manufacturing readiness, improve debug and root-cause effectiveness, and help ensure that internal teams and external partners can execute with clarity and confidence.
- Critical Experiences & Competencies for Success: Technical Leadership Experience -
- Extensive experience serving as a technical lead in a large, fast-paced engineering environment, with responsibility for driving cross-functional execution across design, validation, manufacturing, and operations. The candidate should be comfortable leading through influence, managing ambiguity, and resolving complex issues across multiple programs in parallel.
- Technical Experience
- Strong understanding of mechanical design principles, design for manufacturability, tolerance management, and how mechanical features translate into manufacturing and production test requirements. The selected candidate should have experience with complex hardware products and be able to interpret design intent at the component, board, and system levels in order to support factory enablement, product debug, and failure analysis.
- Mechanical Analysis and Tools -
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis, structural analysis, finite element analysis, and tolerance analysis is valuable, along with CAD fluency in tools such as SolidWorks or Creo. The ideal candidate does not need to be the primary designer, but must be able to understand, review, and communicate design details effectively in support of manufacturing and debug activities.
- Manufacturing Test and Debug -
- Experience supporting hardware builds, manufacturing test readiness, debug, and root-cause investigation is required. The candidate should be comfortable working with factory teams, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and internal labs to resolve issues related to assembly, fit, function, reliability, or production escapes, and to help define effective screening and verification approaches.
- Strategic Thinking
- The candidate must be skilled at identifying systemic manufacturing and productization risks, prioritizing high-impact issues, and implementing practical solutions in a dynamic, high-tech environment with significant uncertainty.
- Collaboration and Communication
- Effective collaboration across design engineering, operations, quality, vendors, and manufacturing partners is critical for success. The role requires clear communication, strong follow-through, and the ability to build alignment across geographically distributed teams and cultures.
- ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, with significant industry experience in mechanical engineering, product engineering, manufacturing support, or hardware productization. An advanced engineering degree is a plus.
- LOCATION: Austin, Texas (preferred). This role requires travel to Taiwan and other manufacturing locations as needed, including potential multi-week trips during key development, build, and production ramp periods.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Qualifications
