Component Engineer

About the role

Assist in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions requiring the development or sustaining of new or improved techniques, procedures, or products. Plan, conduct, and evaluate approaches to meet project objectives in a timely fashion.

Responsibilities

• Identify and organize requirements; apply relevant usability procedures and principles.
• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain products; assist in their commercialization.
• Build prototypes, products, and systems suitable for testing; set up and run lab simulations.
• Design and implement tests, document results, and develop customer presentations.
• Provide timely corrective actions on defects.
• Produce analyses and mathematical models; draw design conclusions based on those.
• Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code, and other artifacts.
• Contribute to design standards and support design re-use.
• Create and maintain product documentation.
• Provide support to field and customers through InTouch; provide user training as required.
• Assign, direct, and review work of technicians; provide guidance to engineers. With seniority, mentor junior engineers.
• Continually evaluate engineering approaches and risk.
• Author technical reports, papers, articles, patents, and presentations; share expertise via Eureka and special interest groups.
• Expand informal network throughout the organization.
• Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets; adopt new practices to develop innovative and low-cost products.
• Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization, and business.
• Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements as defined in the risk control matrix.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience as an electrical engineer/component engineer.
• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or similar.
• Knowledge of component failure modes, component reliability, and component specifications and standards.
• Knowledge of hardware circuit board design basics.
• Understanding of passive and active components, microcircuit, hybrid, semiconductor, and discrete device fabrication.
• Knowledge of components used in high-reliability, automotive, or downhole environments.
• Knowledge of accelerated reliability testing, reliability theory, and component failure analysis.
• Experience with Cadence PSpice and component modeling, LabView, and/or Python is a plus.
• Familiarity with the usage and automation of various test equipment including power supplies, ovens, LCR meters, DMMs, and oscilloscopes.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills; ability to work in a team environment.