Product Design Lead

About the Business: Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) is a greenfield venture of the Tata Group with expertise in manufacturing precision components. Tata Electronics (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.) is building India’s first AI-enabled state-of-the-art Semiconductor Foundry. This facility will produce chips for applications such as power management ICs, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCUs), and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand across automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communications, and artificial intelligence markets. Tata Electronics is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, which operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with the mission to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves globally through long-term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with trust. Space

: Workstream Leadership & Technical Governance • Lead the assigned product engineering workstream, integrating SME inputs and presenting technical recommendations at management review gates. • Review and approve the technical basis of estimate prior to submission to bid management and costing teams. • Drive evidence-based technical and commercial decision-making throughout the proposal lifecycle. RFQ Review & Solution Development • Review RFQs, drawings, specifications, BOMs, data packages, and customer standards to identify technical gaps and develop structured clarification lists. • Define workstream solutions, assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, risks, mitigation plans, and implementation strategies. • Translate customer

into compliant, cost-effective, and executable manufacturing solutions. Mechanical Design Assurance & Industrialization • Lead mechanical design assurance activities across the product lifecycle. • Drive datum architecture development, RSS and worst-case tolerance stack-up convergence, and design robustness validation. • Ensure design manufacturability through PFMEA-informed DFM methodologies and structured engineering reviews. • Support tooling strategy development and mould-flow-driven optimization to improve manufacturability, quality, and production efficiency. Reliability Validation & Production Readiness • Lead structural and thermal reliability validation activities to ensure product performance and robustness. • Oversee tooling qualification through T0, T1, and T2 builds and establish readiness criteria for production launch. • Define acceptance criteria, validation plans, and key deliverables required to support NPI and volume manufacturing. Planning, Costing & Business Case Development • Develop estimates for quantities, cycle times, resource loading, equipment and tooling