Responsibilities

• Integral technical engagement and concurrent engineering collaboration with internal product development groups such as Surface, Surface Hub, Xbox, HoloLens and Next Generation product lines.
• Early partnership with product development teams to identify design elements that are new, unique, or difficult and enable their realization through all engineering verification and validation cycles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external vendors to identify, characterize and deliver manufacturing processes that enable the commercialization of unique and emerging technologies in new product categories.
• Directing and setting priorities for teams focused on creating new ways to solve complex design and manufacturing challenges, cost reduction and yield improvement efforts, inventing and commercializing new technologies and methods.
• Perform technical analyses, recommend, prepare and execute designs-of-experiments, and characterize process and design interactions.
• Stay current and versed in emerging technologies, materials, methods and manufacturing processes.
• Generate best practices guidelines and documentation to enable efficiencies in future hardware development and launch activities.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to meet schedule, cost, and performance-related objectives.
• Drive clear and accurate communications and recommendations to peers and senior management by distilling complex technical challenges, outlining options, and providing supporting data
• Drive DfX activities in the hardware product development schedules to meet or exceed product targets (ex. manufacturability, scale, quality, reliability, safety, cost).
• 15-25% travel to domestic and overseas vendor and factory sites is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in related engineering discipline.
  6+ years as either a hardware engineer directly contributing to product development or high-volume manufacturing process engineer involving consumer electronics, electro-mechanical systems manufacturing, and integration.
• Strong technical aptitude and experience with electro-mechanical design and related manufacturing process. Some examples include: Complex small-scale mechanical assemblies; Design for assembly / Manufacturing; Interconnect design, FPCA design; EE and ME component and material selection; Design for EMI/RF, Display / touch fabrication, adhesive bonding, and system integration.
• Concurrent engineering experience with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability in product and statistical process control, MSA/GRR, part characterization, structured problem solving, root cause and defect/failure analysis, FMEA, DOE, FEA, reliability testing, statistical data analysis.
• Proficiency with statistical analysis, including usage of tools such as JMP and Minitab.
• Proficiency with 3D design tools and other CAD suites. Knowledge in Pro-E/Creo and SolidWorks is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and structured problem-solving approach; Experience leveraging manufacturing data and field return data to identify design and assembly issues and subsequently drive continuous quality.

Preferred additional Qualification and Capabilities:

• Design for manufacturing experience in a high-volume environment preferred.
• Understands PC or other consumer electronics mechanical and electro-mechanical interactions (enclosures, displays, thermal solutions, cables/FPCs, connectors, etc.)
• Know-how with mechanical tolerance analysis and tools such as CETOL and VSA.
• Experience with fixture & equipment development, metal forming & CNC, injection molding, adhesives, composites, fabrics, and complex mechanisms.

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