Product Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborates with development, engineering, manufacturing, sales, and the customer to ensure the division’s global product specifications meet the needs of all parties
• Proactively identifies and resolves customer issues and assists applications engineers in delivering high quality product support and customer issue resolution
• Affirms the impact of proposed processes, material, or design changes on product performance and works with applications engineering to ensure the transparency of these changes to the customer
• Gathers prioritized customer product requirements from customer-facing organizations as input to the division’s global product specifications and to justify quality architecture
• Leads projects to implement effective processes that improve business practices
• Translates technical learning into product specifications, process windows, qualification plans, and manufacturing transfer requirements
• Develops product roadmap aligned with internal plan and external requirements

Experiences/Education

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree – technical field; master’s degree desirable
• 5+ years of work experience in related field
• Experience with product qualification, reliability testing, and performance validation for advanced materials or optical components
• Broad understanding of ceramic processing technologies and how they influence product design, cost, yield, and scalability
• Structured problem-solving techniques, applied statistics, and design of experiments for product-development decision making
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes, process control, and transfer of new products into production