Senior Electrical Product Engineer- Senior Hardware NPI & Quality Lead with 15+ years of experience in hardware engineering, a deep understanding of PCB/PCBA, and a passion for DFM and NPI

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Meet the Team

Product, Component, & Quality Operations is the operations engine that transforms engineering innovation into products and solutions at scale to deliver margin, quality, and deliver outcomes to customers. We launch products using competitive operational solutions and optimized processes, and we focus on cost, quality, and delivery. We also enable the end-to-end processes and systems required to scale and operate the vertically integrated silicon and optics component models.

Your Impact

• You will partner and collaborate with hardware development engineering, test development engineering, Quality and Reliability engineering, Technology & Quality and other extended teams within the Supply Chain organization. Your primary emphasis will be on Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Resiliency, Design for Quality and to enable the delivery of a high-quality products for production while working in a dynamic and fast-paced team environment.

• You'll provide new product introduction support for ongoing engineering from pre-concept commit through EOL; Work collaboratively with stakeholders in development of processes, technology to support new product development; Bill of Materials (BOM) management and BOM risk Management.

• You'll collaborate with design (hardware and mechanical) team for Dfx issues and ensure that they are resolved prior to release of the product; Drive and participate in design and manufacturing FMEA; Provide leadership in driving the product quality issues in NPI and sustaining.

• You'll work on Value engineering and cost avoidance (pre-production release) - Engage early with Component Engineering, T&Q, GSM and Hardware engineering and influence on component selection, process efficiency, and design changes; Design lab experimentation/debug (proficiency continuum)/DOE/EFA. You will be assessing CM and supply chain technical capability gaps; Crafting, analyzing, and releasing product documentation

• You will be responsible for Technical lifecycle management (defect reduction team participation, new component qualification, etc); Design diagnostic analysis and input/influence; Debug and board bring up; Leadership and direction of sophisticated issue resolution

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent plus 10+ years related experience

• Understanding of system hardware architectures, design concepts and engineering development practices. Using various diagnostic tools, debug and trouble-shoot failing system down to board level and also boards down to component level. Characterize timing interface using scope, logic analyzers, TDR and various other equipment. Test, debug and bring-up proto boards

• Experiences with Allegro, Valor and other manufacturing tools used in the job

• Deep knowledge and understanding of PCB fabrication and PCB assembly process and technology

• Ability to act in a lead role for an Engineering or related function

• Experience working on a switch/router product is a plus

• Good written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills

• Design tools proficiency (Valor, schematic, CAD, other CAE tools)

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end process for optical and regular Printed Circuit Board Assembly

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