Mechanical and Thermal Supply Base Engineer

NVIDIA's Supply Base Engineering Team (SBE) is seeking a Mechanical and Thermal Supply Base Engineer to ensure seamless integration of design and manufacturing processes. You will focus on advancing Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles, developing MFD solutions, and driving manufacturing feedback to Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Manage consumer NPI mechanical and thermal component qualification, manufacturing technology management, and MP readiness.
• Represent Operations during early product life cycles and provide manufacturability, quality, cost, and yield impact information to design, sourcing, and manufacturing engineering teams.
• Ensure clear product specifications, such as CMF, cosmetic spec, 2D drawing, and reliability requirement.
• Lead suppliers to establish efficient fabrication process flows and drive solutions to problems that may adversely affect MP.
• Provide manufacturability feasibility analysis, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and apply risk-minimizing techniques to optimize manufacturability.
• Perform surveys and audits for new supplier selection and qualification with functional teams.
• Implement the KISS principle, handle DFM exception agreements.
• Address front-line production and manufacturing product issues, monitor fleet health, and initiate investigations of issues and root causes of product failures.
• Own yield and efficiency improvement actions and process change decisions based on statistical process control (SPC) data analysis.
• Manufacturing waste reduction, cost optimization proposals, and cosmetic appearance improvement.

Requirements:

• B.S. degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience; M.S. preferred.
• 3+ years of consumer product design experience.
• In-depth knowledge of industrial design decoration manufacturing technology capability, material selection, and related tooling/mold technologies.
• Proven hands-on experience and proficiency in DFM best practices.
• Technical and quality-sensitive problem-solving skills.
• Ability to learn quickly, operate outside comfort zones, and work in a dynamic environment.
• Working knowledge of modern mechanical design tools, preferably Creo or SolidWorks.

Nice to Have:

• Balanced design and manufacturing experience.
• Passion for manufacturing process optimization, craftsmanship, and quality delivery.
• Background in consumer product mechanical design and manufacturing environment.
• Experience in functional tolerancing, GD&T, SPC, NUDD, system assembly/testing, and a solid grasp of NPI processes.