Sustaining Engineer - Electrical

Title: Sustaining Engineer - Electrical

Location: Sunnyvale CA

(In this role, the person's main responsibility would be failure analysis. The individual's background could be EE validation, FA, or design.)

Experience level: 5-9 years

As a Sustaining Engineer, you will own post ramp qualifications, second source qualifications, and quality improvements for VR devices. You will partner with other electrical engineers during development, take over products as they reach maturity, and support them through end-of-life. You must be a great hands-on engineer and generalist that can wear many hats across EE, RF, Displays, Power, Audio, etc., and have strong interpersonal skills and experience working with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have expertise in electrical and hardware design and have shipped consumer devices.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of hardware projects from production ramp through end-of-life.
• Develop and qualify hardware changes, including new components and design/process changes.
• Participate in engineering reviews, such as schematic, layout, and DFM, with both cross-functional teams and external engineering partners.
• Develop system test plans, including test methodology and coverage, to validate changes and ensure product reliability.
• Create documentation such as Engineering Change Orders and general process documentation.
• Monitor data and test reports from design validation, production builds, and field returns to identify potential issues.
• Participate in Failure Analysis.
• Travel to vendor and partner sites to support projects: 10%

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• BS in Electrical or Computer Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of direct experience in electrical hardware engineering and/or sustaining engineering.
• Knowledge of the technical rigor and processes required to bring a product to market at scale.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience working with external partners, such as vendors and manufacturers.
• Experience reading and creating technical documentation such as datasheets, technical drawings, block diagrams, etc.
• Experience with common lab and test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, etc.
• Experience utilizing schematic and layout tools such as Cadence.

Desired Skills:

• MS in Electrical or Computer Systems Engineering.
• Experience within the Consumer Electronics industry.
• Experience with offshore manufacturing partners.
• Experience with electrical subsystems, such as Power/Battery, Display/Camera, Wireless/RF, Audio, etc.

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