Senior Component Engineer, PCB & Board-Level Electronics

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Date posted 28/09/2026 Location San Jose, California;
Austin, Texas;
San Diego, California Category Engineering Operations

We are looking for a Senior Component Engineer for PCB & Board-Level Electronics to own the technical component strategy and lifecycle risk management for electronic components used across our board-level hardware products, from new product introduction (NPI) through high-volume manufacturing and end of life. You will work at the intersection of Electrical Engineering, Hardware Design, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and our component suppliers and manufacturing partners.

The role combines deep electrical and component engineering expertise with a strong understanding of supply markets, cost, lifecycle, and manufacturing risk.

You will be responsible for ensuring that critical board-level components, including ICs, PMICs and power devices, capacitors, resistors, inductors, discretes, timing devices, memory and other active and passive components - meet product performance, power, reliability, cost, availability, and lifecycle requirements. A core mandate is to eliminate avoidable single-source exposure by building technically sound dual- and multi-source strategies before supply constraints become critical.

• Own component engineering strategy for assigned board-level electronic component families from architecture and NPI through qualification, production ramp, sustaining, and end of life.
• Partner with Electrical and Hardware Engineering early in the design cycle to influence component selection based on electrical performance, power, thermal behavior, reliability, manufacturability, cost, availability, supplier roadmap, and lifecycle risk.
• Provide deep technical expertise across ICs, PMICs and power-management devices, capacitors, resistors, inductors, discretes, timing devices, memory, and other board-level active and passive components.
• Lead technical evaluation, selection, characterization, and qualification of new components and alternate sources, including form-fit-function analysis, datasheet and specification review, derating, reliability, and application-level performance assessment.
• Develop and execute dual-source and multi-source strategies for critical components, prioritizing high-risk, single-source, long-lead-time, constrained, or strategically important parts.
• Own the technical qualification path for second sources and substitutions, determining when paper qualification, engineering characterization, board-level validation, reliability testing, or full system qualification is required.
• Conduct proactive BOM risk reviews at key NPI gates and throughout the product lifecycle to identify single-source exposure, lifecycle status, lead-time risk, allocation, supplier concentration, geographic risk, and cost opportunities.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain to develop component strategies that balance technical performance with cost, capacity, lead time, supplier leverage, and assurance of supply.
• Monitor supplier roadmaps, Product Change Notifications (PCNs), lifecycle status, NRND/EOL notices, last-time-buy requirements, and technology transitions; drive mitigation plans before they impact production.
• Develop obsolescence and end-of-life strategies including alternate qualification, redesign recommendations, bridge buys, last-time buys, and inventory strategies based on technical and business tradeoffs.
• Partner with suppliers and manufacturers on technical roadmaps, component availability, qualification data, manufacturing changes, failure analysis, quality issues, and capacity or technology transitions.
• Support NPI builds and production ramps by rapidly assessing component substitutions, shortages, quality excursions, and other material risks without compromising product performance or reliability.
• Lead component-level technical trade studies that quantify performance, power, thermal, reliability, cost, and supply-chain implications of competing component choices.
• Drive component standardization and preferred-part strategies across programs to reduce unnecessary part proliferation, increase purchasing leverage, improve reuse, and simplify qualification and supply management.
• Maintain component governance and engineering data across approved manufacturer/vendor lists (AML/AVL), BOMs, PLM systems, ECNs/ECOs, PCNs, and component lifecycle databases.
• Partner with Quality and Reliability Engineering on component…