Entry Product Engineer

HP•Corvallis, OR

5d•$65,600 - $101,000

About The Position

This is an entry-level Product Engineering position within HP’s imaging and printing business. The role supports print technologies that combine complex design constraints, varied materials, and extensive product testing and qualification to deliver high-quality products and strong end-user performance. Materials and components include polymers, ceramics, metals, elastomers, multilayer films, and electronics, combined through mechanical, fluidic, electrical, adhesion, thermal, and chemical manufacturing processes. The product engineer monitors these processes to ensure product requirements are met or exceeded. The engineer works across product development, manufacturing, and partner organizations to define quality requirements, develop and characterize test methods and quality systems, qualify product changes, investigate failures, and resolve issues. The role also supports new product introduction (NPI) transfers to high-volume manufacturing, data connectivity and retrieval across factories, design for manufacturability, margin studies, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Materials Engineering.
0–2 years of experience in product engineering or similar engineering activities, such as Systems Interactions engineering or Writing Systems engineering.
Ability to work across organizations and use influence to ensure decisions are centered on customer quality.
Ability to work with a team or product engineers toward common objectives.

Nice To Haves

Solid understanding of physics and core engineering materials.
Ability to contribute broadly in a fast-paced industrial R&D environment.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Good planning, organizational, and documentation skills.
Ability to give clear, effective presentations to inform and persuade peers and managers.
Experience with CREO 3D/2D.

Responsibilities

Understand customer and manufacturing requirements and partner with R&D to define quality requirements.
Develop and characterize quality systems and test methods to minimize or eliminate risk and ensure products meet end-customer quality requirements.
Use design of experiments (DOE) characterization and results to refine end-to-end product and process specifications, accounting for material, process, and other variations.
Partner with Southeast Asia high-volume counterparts to drive NPI transfer activities to high-volume manufacturing sites.
Manage qualification of changes to released products.
Triage prototype and production parts to determine causes of failure, drive root-cause evaluation, and resolve issues as they arise.
Partner with other organizations on investigations and escalations for released products.
Understand part-tracking data connectivity methods across factories and work with IT partners to ensure connectivity and accurate data retrieval as materials, parts, and assemblies move between factories.
Retrieve critical process and product data from databases using scripting tools.
Partner with and support the Fab, equipment and tooling design teams, product engineering, and printer teams.
Assist with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Development Effectiveness in new product development to reduce launch risk.
Collaborate with process and supply-chain partners to design and complete margin studies and establish a clear path to stability.
Document, report, and communicate work clearly.
Capture critical knowledge and conduct knowledge transfer.