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About the Role

The Lead DFx Support Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for driving manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, and quality excellence across complex electrical and electromechanical products. This role provides authoritative Design for X leadership from early concept through NPI, production, and sustaining phases, ensuring design intent translates into robust, scalable, and repeatable factory execution. The position requires deep experience with manufacturing environments, tolerance management, and standardization strategies, along with the ability to influence design decisions across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain organizations. The Lead DFx Support Engineer proactively identifies systemic risks, drives design improvements upstream, and materially reduces manufacturing-driven engineering changes, cost, and field corrections.

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level DFx guidance to ensure designs are optimized for manufacturability, assembly efficiency, service access, and long-term quality.
Lead DFx evaluations during concept, design reviews, and release readiness activities, identifying risks before product release.
Establish clear, actionable manufacturability requirements aligned to factory capabilities, takt time, and quality objectives.
Drive cross-program standardization and part rationalization initiatives to reduce variation, cost, and supply chain risk.
Influence architectural and layout decisions to promote reuse of proven components, wiring practices, and panel designs.
Champion robust design principles that minimize sensitivity to tolerance variation and assembly variability.
Lead tolerance stack-up analysis and assembly feasibility assessments in coordination with mechanical and manufacturing engineering.
Identify fit, clearance, and accessibility risks that could impact yield, serviceability, or safety.
Recommend and validate design changes that improve assembly robustness and repeatability.
Serve as the senior technical conduit for manufacturing feedback, ensuring production learnings are systematically fed back into design standards.
Proactively reduce manufacturing-driven ECRs/ECNs by resolving producibility concerns prior to design release.
Support root cause analysis of recurring manufacturing or quality issues and drive corrective and preventative design actions.
Partner with manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain, and production leaders during prototype builds, pilot runs, and production ramp-ups.
Mentor junior engineers on DFx best practices and manufacturing-aware design approaches.
Contribute to continuous improvement of enterprise DFx processes, guidelines, and release criteria.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
Typically 8+ years of experience in DFx, manufacturing-focused design, production engineering, or related roles supporting industrial or infrastructure class equipment.
Proven ability to evaluate complex designs and influence design direction to improve manufacturability and quality.
Deep understanding of tolerance management, assembly processes, and production system constraints.
Demonstrated ability to independently lead DFx efforts and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Experience supporting power and cooling equipment such as switchgear, PDCs, CDUs, transformers, chillers, or similar mission-critical infrastructure.
Hands-on experience in factory environments supporting prototype builds, NPI, and high-mix or low-volume production.
Strong familiarity with electrical panel construction, wiring methods, labeling standards, and industrial assembly practices.
Experience working within PLM systems and formal engineering change processes.
Track record of reducing manufacturing-driven ECRs/ECNs and improving production yield or cycle time through design changes.

Skills

DFx judgment
Technical influence
Manufacturing awareness
Factory execution awareness
Risk identification
Risk mitigation
Standardization
Robustness
Scalability
Cross-functional leadership
Ownership
Accountability
Attention to detail

Location

Austin, TX
Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Remote

Experience Level

Senior level
8+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or related engineering discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$105,100 - $189,200

Benefits

Short-term incentive based on performance
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment
4 weeks of paid parental leave
11 company-paid holidays in 2026 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays)
401(k) retirement plan
Employee stock purchase plan

About the Company

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions.
With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions.
Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.
The DCI team consists of technical subject matter experts who specialize in end-to-end large scale physical infrastructure that powers and enables modern data centers.
This includes power distribution systems such as transformers, substations, generators, switchgear, switch panels, busways, ATS units, EDPM, BMS systems, and control panels, as well as cooling solutions ranging from traditional evaporative and indirect cooling systems to emerging liquid cooling technologies including chillers, heat exchangers, CDUs, pumps, and secondary fluid networks.
The team also addresses the mechanical structures that house these systems - hot aisle containment, steel enclosures, blanking panels, cable trays, and fiber and networking infrastructure.
The DCI team operates as a cross-industry center of excellence, partnering primarily with various cloud providers across the industry.
Team members function as deeply technical subject matter experts who engage directly with customers and supply chain partners to assess requirements, identify challenges, and design infrastructure solutions end-to-end.

Equal Opportunity

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.