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As an Electrical Component Engineer you will contribute to the electrical design of enterprise storage enclosures and servers consisting of hard drives, fans, power supplies and printed circuit board assemblies with high-speed communication interfaces.  Your creative thinking and judgment will help facilitate the resolution of technical, supply chain, cost, and schedule issues. This is a high-impact, high visibility opportunity for the right individual who has developed a substantial skill set in component engineering, has good initiative and self-management abilities, a can-do attitude, and enthusiasm for success.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting design teams with selection of electrical components to mitigate supply chain risk and minimize cost
• Identifying multiple sources for electrical components used in new designs to moderate line down and obsolescence issues that could otherwise force emergency PCBA redesigns.
• Value engineering existing products to improve margins by identifying cost competitive, quality alternate components and suppliers to enable BOM cost reduction
• Collecting & validating specifications, conducting parametric analysis, technical risk assessment on various component types such as Passives, Discrete Semiconductors, IC’s, Logic Devices, Memories, High Speed Electrical Connectors, Timing devices, etc.
• Supporting on-going production of existing products by identifying alternate parts & manufacturers with form, fit and function equivalent analysis on the above listed commodities.
• Awareness of component qualification tests and standards with the ability to analyze and review quality and reliability test information from suppliers on all component types listed above.
• Planning and executing lab testing of components to verify performance and compatibility for use in new or existing products
• Working with cross functional teams such as Procurement, Supply chain, Manufacturing and Engineering to resolve issues with respect to component availability, quality, and reliability.
• Adding suppliers to the AVL and Agile.  Part number and AVL management with revision controls
• Understanding of different compliance requirements like RoHS, REACH, Full Material Content Declaration, etc.
• Providing data for assessing and reporting to management potential margin gains from value engineering work

Required Qualifications:

• BS/BE/B-Tech in Engineering (Electrical, Electronics)
• 3+ years of experience in component selection based on the requirements provided by design engineers.
• Ability to read schematics and understand PCB layout files
• Deep understanding of electrical component functionality, quality, and reliability
• Expertise at using standard electronic lab equipment to test and characterize components and circuits
• Fluency with Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness and ability to work individually, and as a team member, to ensure commitments are met

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with electronic component manufacturing processes
• Experience and understanding of end to end supplier product change/discontinuance notification process.
• Background using AGILE PLM for adding new components to a bill of materials and electrical design library.
• Experience using standard electrical component database tools to make data driven decisions for component engineering activities.
• Circuit and PCBA design experience

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