Sr. PCB Supplier Industrialization Engineer

What to Expect

The PCB Supplier Industrialization Engineer (SIE) is the subject matter expert on rigid, high-layer-count, and high-density interconnect (HDI) PCB manufacturing processes, laminate materials,and fabrication rulesets, and will be responsible for supplier audits, qualifications, and supplierselections for the high-end PCBs in Tesla's electronics portfolio. This role focuses on low-loss,high-speed PCB technologies used in advanced compute, AI, and power-electronics hardware,ensuring that Tesla's most demanding designs are manufacturable at best-in-class quality, yield, and cost.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the subject matter expert on PCB fabrication processes and laminate materials, delivering advanced PCB fabrication and design strategies for low-loss, high-speed applications

• Support Design for Manufacturing (DFM) based on PCB supplier fabrication limitations, and guide Design Engineers on layer stack-ups, impedance control, and layout optimization for high-speed/low-loss performance

• Define and maintain PCB specifications, criteria, and reliability standards to improve supplier performance for incumbent and new PCB suppliers

• Review and define APQP/PPAP requirements as the primary owner and approver of downstream rigid, multi-lam, and HDI PCB suppliers

• Conduct PCB supplier audits and support the development of additional audit criteria to assess suppliers against Tesla's high standard of quality

• Match supplier technology and process capability to product complexity, identify capability gaps, and lead qualification of new fabrication technologies and materials

• Lead experimental validation of new materials, laminates, and processes through formal

• Design of Experiments (DoE) to establish scalable, high-yield manufacturing processes

• Drive PCB suppliers on quality issues and field escalations through root cause analysis and corrective actions on defects such as delamination, via opens/voids, registration, and impedance excursions

• Support negotiations for piece price and product development to ensure Tesla's pricing meets best-landed-cost expectations as well as Supplier Industrialization standards of best-in-class quality

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, or Chemical Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with rigid/HDI PCB manufacturing or industrializing and managing PCB suppliers

• Subject Matter Expert on high-layer-count rigid, multi-lam, and HDI PCB fabrication

• Deep experience with high-speed/low-loss dielectric materials beyond standard FR-4 (e.g., Rogers, Megtron, Tachyon), resins, copper, glass, and polyimides

• Strong understanding of core fabrication steps: electroless and electrolytic copper plating, sequential lamination, microvia formation, laser and mechanical drilling, DES, oxide/bond enhancement, AOI, impedance control, and electrical test

• Experience with layer stack-up design and the trade-offs of material vs. loss vs. cost vs. capacity for high-speed PCBs

• Familiarity with quality tools such as APQP, PPAP, SPC, RCCA, and related methods like control charts, DoE, and Pareto analysis

• Strong knowledge and understanding of industry specifications and standards, especially IPC and JEDEC

• Solid technical knowledge of the downstream PCBA manufacturing process

• International travel is required to engage with manufacturing partners, sometimes on short notice