Sr. Product Validation Engineer

About the job

We are seeking a proactive and enthusiastic Sr. Product Validation Engineer to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Product Validation Engineering Manager, this position is responsible for analyzing warranty and other field data to help us better understand our existing product performance in the field, customer habits and behaviors, as well as how those products are serviced and maintained. In addition, this role will also utilize those data insights to perform Design for Reliability activities in support of New Product Development.

Responsibilities

• Support New Product Development (NPD) through a Design for Reliability methodology
• Develop new or update existing procedures for lab testing that accurately model or predict field performance of product
• Analyze product or components that have failed in the lab or in the field to determine root cause and improve future product or test design
• Engage with project teams to understand project needs/requirements and provide technical expertise using data and analytical tools
• Write thorough and concise tests and process procedures
• Work with our Data Science team to modify existing and/or create new tools to analyze performance of our products in the field
• Develop predictive models and machine learning algorithms to uncover patterns/trends
• Continually enhance data collection procedures to include relevant data for analysis
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve product reliability through the use of varied data sources including returned-goods analysis, in-line manufacturing data, fielded product instrument data, and other sources

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Physics discipline
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to adapt in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in a quality, test, new product development, or other engineering role
• Field Data Analysis: Collect and analyze data from products in the field to identify reliability trends and report needed design changes
• Experience with new product development process and the types of defects driven by product design
• Experience designing tests to validate product or assembly function and/or reliability
• Experience in creating or specifying automation of tests to accelerate speed of results and increase efficiency
• Exposure to a manufacturing environment and the types of defects driven by MFG
• Experience with statistical analysis tools such as Reliasoft Weibull++, Minitab
• Exposure to or Experience Performing Hands-on Failure analysis work
• Application of Python, Command line, Power BI, SQL to analyze and interpret complex datasets
• Ability to continually enhance data collection procedures to include relevant data for analysis
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills; experience with root cause analysis methods such as Fishbone/Ishikawa, is-is not, and 5-why
• Solid understanding of multiple manufacturing/fabrication methods and limitations
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to convey technical information clearly
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Experience interacting with customers