Components Engineer

About Tantalus Systems

The opportunity

Responsibilities

• Assess component selections for existing products, new designs, and design changes; identify suitable alternate manufacturers, vendors, and replacement parts.
• Qualify second sources using technical analysis and bench testing; build alternate sourcing options for continuity, competitive quotes, and cost reduction.
• Work with design engineers early to favor components with multiple viable sources and challenge avoidable sourcing, lifecycle, and supply risks.
• Document technical rationale and support management review for necessary single-source components.
• Evaluate specifications, performance, compatibility, availability, and manufacturer data; record evaluations, alternatives, test results, and decisions.
• Collaborate across hardware, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to address shortages, obsolescence, and component issues.
• Develop market knowledge and support documentation and component-control practices for scaled and contract manufacturing.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent technical education and relevant practical experience.
• Approximately 5 or more years in electronics design, components engineering, component selection, or a closely related hardware engineering role.
• Strong electronic component knowledge, including ability to assess technical and application suitability; hands-on analog electronics experience.
• Experience with component manufacturers, distributors, vendors, supply chains, and qualification of alternate components or second sources.
• Bench-testing experience and comfort using electronic laboratory equipment to validate performance and compatibility.
• Strong technical documentation skills.

Additional qualifications and attributes

• Hardware product development or electronics manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• RF electronics experience is an asset; a P.Eng. designation is an asset but not required.
• The employer seeks practical technical judgment, constructive communication, collaboration across functions, persistence, organization, attention to detail, and ability to balance technical, availability, lifecycle, cost, and business needs.

Work location

• The position is based in Burnaby, British Columbia, with a preference for on-site work.

Compensation and benefits

• The employer describes competitive salary plus variable compensation based on performance targets and business objectives.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care, and paid time off.