Senior Solutions Engineer in Palo Alto, California at Instrumental, Inc.

Instrumental builds the manufacturing acceleration platform behind the world’s most complex electronics. We capture digital exhaust and engineering context from assembly lines—images, test logs, BOM data, performance, repair cycles—and our AI engines identify insights that are difficult or impossible for human engineers to find. We accelerate the companies building the AI era by improving manufacturing yield, throughput, and ramp. NVIDIA, Meta, L3Harris, and their manufacturing partners rely on Instrumental to accelerate new product introduction and production.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you'll combine mechanical design, electronics manufacturing expertise, and customer collaboration to create custom hardware and software solutions that become part of real production lines. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving difficult engineering problems, has worked across many different consumer electronics products, and is excited to see their designs deployed in the field.

If you've ever wanted to expand your impact beyond designing a single product, this role offers the opportunity to work across dozens of manufacturing environments while partnering directly with customers to solve some of the industry's toughest production challenges.

Unlike most mechanical engineering roles, you won't spend years iterating on a single product.

Instead, you'll work across a wide variety of customer applications—from AI infrastructure and networking equipment to consumer electronics and defense. Every project presents a new engineering challenge, a new manufacturing environment, and a new opportunity to build something that has immediate impact.

You'll own technical solutions from concept through deployment while working alongside experienced engineers who enjoy solving difficult problems and moving quickly.

We're especially excited to talk with engineers who have experience in:

We’re a growing team that consistently works collaboratively, is supportive of each other, and is highly energized by the opportunity for large impact. We actively work to promote an inclusive environment, valuing passion and the ability to learn.

You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description!

The following is a representative annual overall total compensation range for this position within the Bay Area: $170,000-$198,000. In addition, job level & salary opportunity is evaluated through our interview process – we review experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of each applicant.

Instrumental is very proud to offer a highly-rated variety of benefits including: Health, Vision, Dental, Public Transit/Commuter Plans, and Maternity/Paternity Leave.

At Instrumental, protecting company and customer information is a shared responsibility. All employees are expected to comply with company security and privacy policies and promptly report suspected security incidents or policy violations.