Senior Research & Development Engineer
About The Position
The Engineer 3 role is a senior-level individual contributor within the Global Engineering organization. This position is responsible for designing, optimizing, and influencing system-level engineering solutions that support product development, testing platforms, process innovation, and R&D initiatives across Asurion’s operations. Reporting to an Engineering Manager or Senior Manager, the Engineer 3 operates with strong technical autonomy and broad organizational influence. This role moves beyond feature ownership to system contribution—anticipating cross-functional impacts, improving engineering standards, and ensuring scalable, high-performing solutions across teams and sites. Engineer 3 serves as a trusted technical authority within their domain, guiding solution architecture, improving engineering practices, and mentoring junior engineers. This is a full-time, on-site, exempt position.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of engineering principles within assigned discipline.
- Strong system-thinking capability — understands interactions across processes, tools, data, and people.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable solutions beyond individual features.
- Proficiency in advanced problem-solving methodologies (RCA, CAPA, FMEA, DOE, statistical analysis).
- Ability to influence engineering direction without direct authority.
- Experience driving standardization and engineering best practices.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to balance short-term operational needs with long-term system optimization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline required.
- Typically 6–9 years of progressive engineering experience.
- Demonstrated success influencing system-level engineering outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize system-level engineering solutions that integrate processes, tools, data, and workflows across functions.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives that impact quality, performance, cost, scalability, or lifecycle outcomes.
- Establish and refine engineering standards, validation methods, documentation practices, and process controls.
- Own key system KPIs and proactively drive improvements through structured analysis and sustainable countermeasures.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in core technical domains, advising leadership and stakeholders on risk, feasibility, and long-term impact.
- Lead advanced root cause analysis and corrective action strategies across multi-functional systems.
- Support new product introductions, technology deployments, and process transformations with system-level readiness and validation oversight.
- Mentor Engineer 1 and Engineer 2 team members, elevating technical depth and structured problem-solving capability.
- Partner with global teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to align engineering solutions with long-term strategy.
- Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to leadership.
- Remain adaptable to evolving priorities while maintaining accountability for system performance and reliability.
- Owns system-level product performance across lifecycle phases.
- Defines and standardizes validation, tooling, and documentation frameworks across sites.
- Anticipates downstream operational impacts of product changes.
- Leads large-scale cost and performance optimization initiatives.
- Designs and optimizes system-level test platform architecture.
- Owns enterprise test KPIs across throughput, traceability, and reliability.
- Standardizes validation methodologies across regions.
- Leads integration strategy for third-party and internal systems.
- Anticipates scalability risks before deployment.
- Leads system-level innovation initiatives with multi-team impact.
- Defines validation standards for prototypes transitioning to production.
- Conducts structured risk modeling and long-term feasibility analysis.
- Partners with suppliers to shape capability evolution.
- Drives pilot-to-production transitions across sites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
