Entry Product Engineer

HP•Corvallis, OR

About The Position

This is an entry-level Product Engineering position within HP’s imaging and printing business. The role supports complex print technologies that combine materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, elastomers, multilayer films, and electronics, as well as mechanical, fluidic, electrical, adhesion, thermal, and chemical manufacturing processes. Product engineers monitor these processes to ensure product requirements are met or exceeded. The position works across product development, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain organizations to define and verify quality requirements, qualify products and changes, investigate failures, support new product introduction (NPI), and enable transfer to high-volume manufacturing. It also involves retrieving and interpreting product and process data, including through scripting tools, and communicating findings through clear documentation, reporting, 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 around 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 and effective presentations to inform and persuade peers and managers.
Experience with CREO 3D/2D.

Responsibilities

Understand customer product requirements and manufacturing process requirements.
Partner with R&D to define quality requirements.
Develop and characterize quality systems and test methods to minimize or eliminate risks and ensure products meet end-customer quality requirements.
Use design of experiments (DOE) characterization and results to refine specifications from product through process, 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 issue resolution for problems arising in prototype and production.
Partner with other organizations to investigate and escalate issues involving released products.
Understand data connectivity methods used to track parts within and across factories.
Work with IT partners to ensure data connectivity and operationally correct data retrieval as materials and parts or assemblies move between factories.
Access databases and use scripting tools to retrieve critical process and product data.
Partner with and support organizations including 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.