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Senior Product Engineer

Asurion · Smyrna, TN · 2 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize system-level engineering solutions that integrate processes, tools, data, and workflows across functions.
  • Lead complex cross-functional initiatives that impact quality, performance, cost, scalability, or lifecycle outcomes.
  • Establish and refine engineering standards, validation methods, documentation practices, and process controls.
  • Own key system KPIs and proactively drive improvements through structured analysis and sustainable countermeasures.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in core technical domains, advising leadership and stakeholders on risk, feasibility, and long-term impact.
  • Lead advanced root cause analysis and corrective action strategies across multi-functional systems.
  • Support new product introductions, technology deployments, and process transformations with system-level readiness and validation oversight.
  • Mentor Engineer 1 and Engineer 2 team members, elevating technical depth and structured problem-solving capability.
  • Partner with global teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to align engineering solutions with long-term strategy.
  • Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to leadership.
  • Remain adaptable to evolving priorities while maintaining accountability for system performance and reliability.

Skills & Knowledge

  • Advanced knowledge of engineering principles within assigned discipline.
  • Strong system-thinking capability — understands interactions across processes, tools, data, and people.
  • Demonstrated ability to design scalable solutions beyond individual features.
  • Proficiency in advanced problem-solving methodologies (RCA, CAPA, FMEA, DOE, statistical analysis).
  • Ability to influence engineering direction without direct authority.
  • Experience driving standardization and engineering best practices.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
  • Ability to balance short-term operational needs with long-term system optimization.

Behavioral Dimensions

  • System Ownership – Thinks beyond individual tasks; accountable for system performance and sustainability.
  • Technical Influence – Shapes engineering decisions and standards across teams.
  • Strategic Problem-Solving – Anticipates risks and downstream impacts before implementation.
  • Mentorship & Capability Building – Elevates team capability through guidance and knowledge transfer.
  • Continuous Improvement Leadership – Drives structural improvements, not just reactive fixes.

Engineer 3 - Engineering Specialty

  • Product Engineering: Owns system-level product performance across lifecycle phases, defines and standardizes validation, tooling, and documentation frameworks across sites, anticipates downstream operational impacts of product changes, leads large-scale cost and performance optimization initiatives, and serves as domain subject matter expert influencing cross-team decisions.
  • Test Engineering: Designs and optimizes system-level test platform architecture, owns enterprise test KPIs across throughput, traceability, and reliability, standardizes validation methodologies across regions, leads integration strategy for third-party and internal systems, anticipates scalability risks before deployment.
  • R&D Engineering: Leads system-level innovation initiatives with multi-team impact, defines validation standards for prototypes transitioning to production, conducts structured risk modeling and long-term feasibility analysis, partners with suppliers to shape capability evolution, drives pilot-to-production transitions across sites.

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