New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer [Mechanical focus]

Join the Trackonomy Team! 

At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. Join us to evolve professionally in a company that reshapes both industries and individuals.

Connection & Community: You're essential to Trackonomy's mission, and every team member is regarded as a founder.  Collectively, our goal is to make a lasting impact on the world, making every endeavor at Trackonomy a meaningful journey.

Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from our seasoned leaders. Your potential and passion define your trajectory here. We value innovation and offer unparalleled opportunities, making your career journey transformative. At Trackonomy, your growth is multifaceted. Collaborate and learn directly from senior leaders across various departments. Here, your potential—fueled by capability, passion, and results—determines the scope of your role.  At Trackonomy, merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience. It's a level playing field, offering unique opportunities not found elsewhere.

Impact: Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world. From fire prevention to enhanced security, our innovations don't just change industries; they save lives. Join us to be part of meaningful change.

The Role

We are seeking a successful New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer who is technical, driven, organized, detail oriented, adept at driving actions and resolving conflicts; and communicates with ease at all levels. You will be instrumental in ensuring the manufacturability and transfer of our cutting-edge products. You will lead the design and execution of functional quality testing strategies for concurrent manufacturing lines, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and play a pivotal role in driving quality across all stages of the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities will include:

• Participate and enable new product introductions with the highest technical quality
• Drive key initiatives which improve future designs, including board validation, stress testing, and user impact correlations.
• Debug & failure analysis with System and Product Design, Component Engineering, Test, Reliability and Supplier Quality
• Manage all program-related communication to executive management including: Highlight key program risk to management and clearly explain path to resolution
• Commit to work under high time/deliverable pressure with solid results
• Lead quality improvement teams to improve field performance
• Participate in Field Failure Analysis efforts and DPPM reduction
• Systemic yield improvements and reporting from lessons learned across the product life cycle and ecosystem
• Able to interpret, analyze and summarize data well to drive decisions

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in mechatronic or process design (ideally for cyberphysical systems), close loop systems, debug & integration of electronics into mechanical enclosures that include radio frequency; electronic products in embedded systems experience is preferred.
• Bachelors in Mechatronics or Mechanical Engineering

Key Qualifications

• Familiar with design and schematic tools.
• Familiarity with board and system test equipment
• Demonstrated excellence in organization, execution and program management in complex cross functional projects.
• Excellent skills in failure analysis of systems, and their components
• Drive technical root cause analysis and corrective actions to improve system quality
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel to our manufacturing facility in Mexico on a regular basis
• Precise technical communication including deep level of engineering analysis and details.
• Demonstrated initiative with a high level of energy, and methodical & efficient problem solving skills including engineering DOEs.
• Familiarity in system manufacturing, SMT, and transitioning new products into manufacturing.
• Experience using a variety of data mining/data analysis methods, using a variety of data tools to derive meaningful results and drive key decisions to solve problems.

The salary range for this role is $120,000 to $200,000, plus bonuses and Pre-IPO equity. It is uncommon for anyone to be hired at or near the top range for their role, and final compensation is based on the facts and circumstances of the case. The compensation range is broad because it reflects many factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience, and training directly relevant to the role, business and company needs, cultural fit, level, and location. 

About Trackonomy 

At Trackonomy, we are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects. Our goal is to bring inanimate objects to life, giving them the ability to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Envision a world where our devices seamlessly integrate with every physical entity, facilitating a global conversation among them. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time.  Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC.

Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. 

Are you ready to be a part of the next chapter in Silicon Valley's hyper-growth IoT success story?

Trackonomy Systems is proud to ensure equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, medical condition, genetic information, marital or registered domestic partnership status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. 

We strive to provide a stellar experience throughout the application process and ensure all applicants will be given proper consideration based solely on merit and Trackonomy’s business needs.

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