SUMMARYThe
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.
Job Title: Lead DFX Engineer
Organization: Data Center Infrastructure Team
Location: Austin, TX - or Remote
**Requires up to 25% domestic and/or international travel (rare)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIESDFx Leadership & Manufacturing Readiness- 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.
Standardization & Design Robustness - 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.
Tolerance Management & Assembly Feasibility - 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.
Manufacturing Feedback Integration & Change Reduction - 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.
Cross Functional Technical Influence - 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.
Required Qualifications - 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.
Preferred Experience - 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.
Core Competencies - Senior level DFx judgment and technical influence
- Strong manufacturing and factory execution awareness
- Proactive risk identification and mitigation
- Bias toward standardization, robustness and scalability
- Effective cross-functional leadership without managerial authority
- High ownership, accountability and attention to detail
About the Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) Team: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. The ideal contributor brings engineering-level expertise in either power or cooling disciplines, a working knowledge of the full infrastructure dependency chain, and the ability to
The pay range for this role is $105,100 - $189,200. Job-related, non-discriminatory factors used to determine the actual offered rate include qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and consideration of internal equity. The anticipated close date of this job requisition is: .
As part of the total rewards package, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive based on performance. In addition, Jabil offers benefits to enhance your health, wealth, and resilient self. These include medical, dental, and vision insurance plans; paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment; 4 weeks of paid parental leave; in 2026, 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly; 401(k) retirement plan; and employee stock purchase plan.
