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Senior Component Engineer, Electronics
Creative Door Services
Brownsville, USA
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Qualifications
- Candidates should have experience supporting electronic products from development through high-volume production and possess strong electrical engineering fundamentals, broad component knowledge, and sound engineering judgment.
- Experience evaluating and qualifying electronic components used in PCB assemblies.
- Strong understanding of component specifications, derating principles, thermal performance, reliability, failure mechanisms, and qualification methodologies.
- Experience assessing alternate components for electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, regulatory, and lifecycle compatibility.
- Knowledge of BOM risk management, lifecycle planning, PCN reviews, obsolescence mitigation, and sourcing strategies.
- Familiarity with PCB fabrication, assembly processes, component packaging, and DFM/DFT principles.
- Experience with component quality, reliability engineering, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and failure analysis.
- Experience supporting new product development and production release processes.
- Familiarity with UL, FCC, RoHS, REACH, and other applicable regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Experience using PLM, ERP, component database, and BOM management systems; familiarity with Altium Designer, PADS, or similar ECAD tools is a plus.
- Ability to read schematics, interpret datasheets and qualification reports, and use standard electronic test equipment.
- Strong leadership, analytical, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing, and supplier organizations.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline, with typically 8+ years of relevant industry experience; or
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline, with typically 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage the selection, qualification, lifecycle management, and sourcing strategy for electronic components from product concept through end of life.
- Work closely with engineering teams to select components that meet performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, cost, availability, and lifecycle requirements.
- Provide technical expertise for active and passive components, including semiconductors, microcontrollers, power devices, relays, capacitors, resistors, inductors, RF components, connectors, and related technologies.
- Evaluate, qualify, and approve new components and alternate sources through technical analysis, testing, and validation.
- Develop dual-source and alternate-source strategies to mitigate supply chain and lifecycle risks.
- Assess component changes and substitutions through engineering reviews, testing, reliability analysis, and system validation.
- Conduct BOM risk assessments to identify lifecycle, supply chain, compliance, counterfeit, lead-time, and cost risks.
- Monitor supplier roadmaps, PCNs, NRND notifications, and end-of-life announcements, and develop mitigation plans.
- Lead obsolescence management activities, including alternate component qualification, redesign recommendations, last-time buys, and inventory strategies.
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain teams to balance technical requirements with cost, lead time, and supply continuity.
- Support supplier engagement, quality investigations, failure analysis, qualification reviews, and corrective action activities.
- Assist with new product launches, production ramp-ups, and component shortage mitigation efforts.
- Maintain approved component databases, specifications, qualification records, and lifecycle documentation.
- Establish and continuously improve component engineering standards, preferred parts lists, qualification methodologies, and risk management processes.
- Communicate component-related risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing, and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using PLM, ERP, component database, and BOM management systems; familiarity with Altium Designer, PADS, or similar ECAD tools is a plus.
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