Amperesand
Senior NPI Technical Program Manager
Reno, Nevada, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role blends hands-on technical problem solving with cross-functional leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end NPI process, defining and driving the master build schedule (EVT, DVT, PVT, and ramp) with clear entry/exit criteria and alignment across all stakeholders.
- Support engineering and manufacturing development activities by contributing technical expertise to NPI builds and product readiness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams - engineering, product development, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and operations - to achieve program milestones.
- Partner with Engineering and Operations to finalize and confirm MBOM accuracy, ensuring alignment between design, configuration, and factory readiness.
- Establish and track key NPI metrics (yield, cycle time, first-pass success, defect rates) to measure readiness and drive improvements.
- Provide clear, consistent communication of build status, risks, and technical updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Quality teams to develop and validate test strategies, reliability plans, and qualification activities, ensuring compliance with internal standards, regulatory bodies, and customer certifications.
- Support change management by coordinating ECOs, configuration control, and ensuring synchronization between design and production systems.
- Drive design-for-manufacturability (DFM/DFA) by creating feedback loops between engineering and production teams.
- Partner with global operations and suppliers to ensure capacity, material readiness, and logistics alignment for high-volume ramp.
Company info
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption.
- Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
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