
Manufacturing Engineer - Advanced Components
- Lake Oswego, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define & deploy technology platforms in a cross-functional team for new product applications through testing, simulation and prototypes.
- Qualification of components for use in surface mount electronic manufacturing.
- Use systematic problem-solving approaches to resolve quality/performance issues with suppliers, development, and manufacturing teams.
- Lead testing and validation of components for high reliability applications, by performing use case based electrical and environmental stress tests.
- Implementation tasks including leading stage-gate approvals, documentation, supplier quality interface, characterization, verification and on-going sustaining support in a highly automated manufacturing environment.
- Perform long term road mapping activities to guide solutions to intercept with future product needs
- Assess, communicate with key stakeholders, and qualify process changes at suppliers
- Perform on-site supplier audits, domestic and international
- B.Sc. or M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Material Science, or equivalent physical science, with evidence of high academic achievement
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills; Detail oriented
- 3+ years experience with chip scale packaging, direct bump attach, copper pillar, and similar technologies
- Detailed knowledge of wafer-level packaging, wire bond, encapsulation, and chip attach; their materials and processes.
- Detailed knowledge of IC packaging failure modes and root cause analysis techniques
- Experience in high reliability electronics manufacturing environment
- Experience with quality systems including technical writing of quality-relevant documentation
- Strong physics-based reasoning
- Experience with failure analysis and root cause corrective action with suppliers
- Demonstrated ability to conceive, implement and complete engineering projects and experiments on schedule
- Proficiency in standard office productivity software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc... )
- Demonstrated ability to interface across multiple functions/organizations (Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Test, Module/System development) to drive closure on projects.
- Demonstrated creativity with multiple examples of innovative solutions. U.S. or EU Patents desirable.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile.
- The employee is also required to interact with a computer for extended periods of time and communicate with co-workers.
- Must be able to work a minimum of 40 hours / week.
- Must be able to travel internationally and domestically, less than 5% of the time.