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Responsibilities
- Define and own the end-to-end product configuration management strategy, including baseline establishment, change control governance, and configuration status accounting across hardware product lines
- Lead engineering change management processes, evaluating change requests for technical feasibility, cost impact, schedule risk, and supply chain readiness before routing through approval workflows
- Govern bill of materials accuracy and integrity across all product lifecycle phases, partnering with mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering teams to maintain structured and validated product definitions
- Establish and enforce configuration identification standards, part numbering schemas, and revision control practices across cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams
- Drive configuration audits, including functional configuration audits and physical configuration audits, to verify product builds conform to approved design documentation and specifications
- Collaborate with supply chain and commodity management teams to assess engineering change impacts on component availability, supplier qualifications, and inventory disposition
- Develop and maintain configuration management plans, policies, and tooling standards that scale across multiple concurrent hardware programs and product generations
- Partner with program management and systems engineering to align configuration baselines with program milestones, design freeze gates, and manufacturing readiness reviews
- Identify systemic gaps in configuration control processes and lead cross-functional initiatives to improve traceability, reduce engineering change cycle time, and increase first-pass build accuracy
- Provide configuration management expertise and guidance to engineering teams, establishing best practices and ensuring consistent application of configuration discipline across the organization
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in engineering product configuration management, engineering change management, or product lifecycle management within hardware or consumer electronics development
- Experience establishing and governing bill of materials structures, part numbering systems, and revision control processes across multi-disciplinary hardware programs
- Experience leading configuration control boards or engineering change review processes, including impact assessment across engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing domains
- Experience with PLM systems (such as Agile, Windchill, Arena, or equivalent) for configuration baseline management and engineering change workflows
- Experience conducting configuration audits and ensuring product build conformance to approved design documentation across hardware product lifecycle phases
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Familiarity with IPC-2578, EIA-649, or equivalent configuration management standards applied to commercial hardware development
- Experience managing configuration management programs for data center server hardware, infrastructure systems, or other high-complexity technical hardware with rapid iteration cycles
- Track record of defining configuration management tooling strategy and driving cross-functional adoption across large engineering organizations
- Experience integrating configuration management processes with manufacturing execution systems and supply chain planning tools to support clear-to-build readiness
$151,000/year to $210,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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