Product Engineer

Corning•City of Corning, NY

76d•$96,254 - $132,349

About The Position

Corning's Environmental Technologies segment manufactures ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile and stationary applications around the world. This Product Engineer role provides technical leadership of filter and substrate products for automotive industries. The role maintains the division’s global product specifications and manages internal and external change requests in a manner that maximizes Corning’s value proposition and supports the achievement of the division’s product line goals. The person manages process to evaluate customer and internal requests for product related changes. The role will focus on working closely with Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and Commercial teams to align technical work with product requirements, business priorities, and customer needs. The person is expected to have broad technical skills, strong product-development judgment, and the ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary teams. Strong presentation and communication skills are required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree – technical field
5+ years of work experience in related field
Ability to define product requirements, evaluate performance trade-offs, and connect material/process variables to customer-facing product attributes
Strong data analysis skills and ability to use experimental results to guide design decisions, qualification plans, and product readiness
Experience with planning and executing experiments in a team environment
Ability to strategize and think critically about product-development pathways, technical risks, scale-up needs, and manufacturability and cost

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree desirable
Experience with product qualification, reliability testing, and performance validation for advanced materials or optical components
Expertise in Solid works for product drawings and designs
Broad understanding of ceramic processing technologies and how they influence product design, cost, yield, and scalability
Structured problem-solving techniques, applied statistics, and design of experiments for product-development decision making
Familiarity with manufacturing processes, process control, and transfer of new products into production

Responsibilities

Collaborates with development, engineering, manufacturing, sales, and the customer to ensure the division’s global product specifications meet the needs of all parties
Proactively identifies and resolves customer issues and assists applications engineers in delivering high quality product support and customer issue resolution
Assesses the impact of proposed processes, material, or design changes on product performance and works with applications engineering to ensure the transparency of these changes to the customer
Gathers prioritized customer product requirements from customer-facing organizations as input to the division’s global product specifications and to justify quality architecture
Lead projects to implement effective processes that improve business practices
Translate technical learning into product specifications, process windows, qualification plans, and manufacturing transfer requirements
Develop product roadmap aligned with internal plan and external requirements