Senior Packaging Engineer
Amperesand · Sunnyvale, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $130k–$200k
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Amperesand (industrial) in Sunnyvale, CA.
- They ask for
- degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- GD&T, SolidWorks, CATIA / NX
- Base pay
- $130k–$200k
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How this role compares
Against 277 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 26% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $109k–$153k, from 100 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 59%
- ✓ New product launch 54%
- Root cause 45%
- Automation 35%
- ✓ CATIA / NX 34%
- Machining 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at Amperesand
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
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Bring proof to the interview
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This plant: Amperesand in Sunnyvale
2 other open roles at this site.
- Materials and Process Engineer · Process
- Hardware Reliability Engineer · Reliability
Full description from AmperesandAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Deliver technical designs of packaging that are optimized to protect components, for weight, durability, and interfacing with material handling in the manufacturing line.
- ◆Perform 3D modeling, FEA, and durability analysis of concept packaging designs.
- ◆Design, source, build, and execute testing on prototype packaging.
- ◆Conduct design reviews and ensure compliance to standards (ISTA, ASTM, etc.)
- ◆Deliver finished 3D/2D and engineering specifications to be used for supplier bidding and compliance documentation.
- ◆Participate in packaging and component supplier evaluation.
- ◆Partner with engineering teams in design, manufacturing, material handling, NPI, to develop designs and review requirements, from concept through production.
Senior Packaging Engineer
Role Summary: Amperesand is seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Packaging Engineer to join our team and own packaging for incoming components. The primary function of this position is to design in-bound part packaging optimized to protect components for domestic and international shipment, and to interface with part picking on our production lines. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, manufacturing, suppliers, quality, and program management. You will be directly responsible for Amperesand’s most unique and critical packaging designs.
Responsibilities
- ◆Deliver technical designs of packaging that are optimized to protect components, for weight, durability, and interfacing with material handling in the manufacturing line.
- ◆Perform 3D modeling, FEA, and durability analysis of concept packaging designs.
- ◆Design, source, build, and execute testing on prototype packaging.
- ◆Conduct design reviews and ensure compliance to standards (ISTA, ASTM, etc.)
- ◆Deliver finished 3D/2D and engineering specifications to be used for supplier bidding and compliance documentation.
- ◆Participate in packaging and component supplier evaluation.
- ◆Partner with engineering teams in design, manufacturing, material handling, NPI, to develop designs and review requirements, from concept through production.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience and demonstrated accomplishments.
- ✓3+ years of experience designing packaging for components from concept to production.
- ✓Expertise in CAD modeling using 3D EXPERIENCE (CATIA 3DX/V5 or Solidworks preferred)
- ✓Capability with CAE simulation tools such as Ansys • Familiarity with packaging component manufacturing processes
- ✓Proficiency in GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM/DFA principles.
Bonus
Qualifications
- ✓Familiarity with electronics packaging and PCBAs
- ✓Experience defining packaging quality documents and supplier standards.
- ✓Experience working in Agile development environments, including task management and sprint planning using Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira.
Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.
SF Pay Range $130,000 - $200,000 USD Reno Pay Range $130,000 - $200,000 USD
- ✓Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- ✓Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hi
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Company Overview
Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.
And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.
Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.
Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
Senior Packaging Engineer
Role Summary: Amperesand is seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Packaging Engineer to join our team and own packaging for incoming components. The primary function of this position is to design in-bound part packaging optimized to protect components for domestic and international shipment, and to interface with part picking on our production lines. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, manufacturing, suppliers, quality, and program management. You will be directly responsible for Amperesand’s most unique and critical packaging designs.