Product Engineer, Senior

MACOM • Nashua, NH

9d • Onsite

About The Position

MACOM is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to provide technical ownership and leadership for the introduction, release, and sustaining support of complex RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave module products at our Nashua, New Hampshire facility. The Senior Product Engineer serves as a technical bridge among Design Engineering, Test Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, Operations, and program leadership. This engineer owns significant NPI and product-engineering activities, leads difficult yield and manufacturing investigations, influences test strategy, and ensures that products are ready for repeatable and cost-effective production. This is a hands-on senior engineering position. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable leading a technical review, analyzing a large production dataset, developing a test strategy, troubleshooting a module in the laboratory, or working alongside technicians to understand a difficult manufacturing problem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Typically five or more years of relevant experience in RF product engineering, test engineering, module engineering, RF design, applications engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of RF and microwave measurements, instrumentation, calibration, fixtures, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the release or manufacture of complex electronic products.
• Experience developing test plans, analyzing characterization data, establishing test limits, and investigating yield issues.
• Strong knowledge of statistical analysis as applied to product characterization, manufacturing variation, yield, and measurement systems.
• Ability to diagnose interactions among RF product performance, test-system behavior, assembly processes, and component variation.
• Experience producing high-quality technical documentation and presenting engineering conclusions to cross-functional audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical investigations and coordinate actions across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Ability to work effectively in both laboratory and production environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with RF, microwave, or millimeter-wave modules, multi-chip modules, integrated microwave assemblies, or high-frequency subsystems.
• Experience with amplifier modules, frequency converters, receivers, transmitters, switches, attenuators, synthesizers, control electronics, or related RF products.
• Experience with test and characterization at millimeter-wave frequencies.
• Experience designing RF fixtures, test boards, waveguide interfaces, bias networks, control interfaces, or automated test hardware.
• Experience with RF measurement techniques including S-parameters, gain compression, noise figure, harmonics, spurious response, phase, group delay, switching characteristics, pulsed measurements, modulated-signal measurements, or thermal characterization.
• Programming and automation experience using Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, C#, C++, or similar tools.
• Experience with RF and electromagnetic simulation tools such as Keysight ADS, AWR Microwave Office, HFSS, CST, or similar platforms.
• Experience with measurement-system analysis, gauge repeatability and reproducibility, process capability, statistical process control, and production monitoring.
• Experience transferring test solutions or manufacturing processes to internal or external production partners.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, satellite communications, telecommunications, test and measurement, or other high-performance RF markets.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead product-engineering activities for complex RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave module programs.
• Own manufacturing readiness and production-release planning for assigned products or product families.
• Provide technical leadership during the transition from prototype development through qualification, initial production, production ramp, and sustaining support.
• Partner with Design Engineering early in the development cycle to improve manufacturability, testability, product margin, and production readiness.
• Define comprehensive characterization and production test strategies based on design requirements, expected variation, failure mechanisms, manufacturing risk, and program commitments.
• Lead development and deployment of RF and DC production test solutions in partnership with Test Engineering.
• Guide the design and technical review of RF test boards, fixtures, interface assemblies, calibration methods, and supporting hardware.
• Establish methods for correlating design characterization, engineering test, production test, and external manufacturing test results.
• Lead statistical analysis used to establish test limits, guard bands, datasheet specifications, and product-screening strategies.
• Own complex yield investigations and drive cross-functional teams toward verified root cause and effective corrective action.
• Evaluate whether performance excursions originate in the product, test system, calibration, fixture, assembly process, component variation, or documentation.
• Establish monitoring methods that detect changes in yield, product performance, or test-system health before significant production is affected.
• Drive improvements in test accuracy, repeatability, throughput, maintainability, and total cost of test.
• Ensure that all production-release requirements are complete, including qualified test solutions, hardware, software, BOMs, drawings, procedures, specifications, costing inputs, training, and manufacturing documentation.
• Support product qualification, reliability investigation, failure analysis, and corrective-action activities.
• Provide technical direction to engineers, technicians, manufacturing personnel, and outside manufacturing partners.
• Lead formal product, yield, test-readiness, and manufacturing reviews.
• Present concise, evidence-based technical recommendations to engineering and program leadership.
• Identify systemic gaps in NPI, product engineering, or production test processes and lead practical improvements.
• Mentor Product Engineer I and Product Engineer II team members in RF measurement, test development, statistics, troubleshooting, documentation, and engineering judgment.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices while remaining willing to work directly with hardware when difficult problems require hands-on investigation.
• Manage multiple technically complex activities while balancing performance, quality, schedule, yield, cost, and manufacturing risk.
• Support occasional travel to suppliers, manufacturing partners, or other MACOM facilities as program needs require.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior