Senior Staff Engineer, Product Engineering

Murata America • San Diego, CA

2d • $164,626 - $214,026 • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for product from development kick-off, through production, until end of life. The position will be responsible for ensuring successful characterization of new products, defining production test plans and launching new products into high volume production. The Candidate is responsible for yield enhancement, analysis of RMA customer returns, and Change control during production. This position will interface with Design, Test, Manufacturing, Reliability, Applications, Foundry and Marketing groups to identify opportunities, drive projects to completion, and verify effectiveness. The assigned tasks will be significant and unique in nature and will require analysis of situations, data, and intangibles. The candidate will need to exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to achieve results. The person in this role will be responsible for successful release of new products into production once a design is proven functional. This will require a strong ability to coordinate among different engineering groups. The candidate must enjoy working in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a sense of commitment and be flexible to project needs. The candidate must be a team player and possess a sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule.

Requirements

• Typically requires 12+ years of experience in Product Engineering or Design Engineering depending on education level and experience
• Experience with any of the following products: LNA, Switch, Antenna Tuning Switch, Wifi/Bluetooth PA, Digital Attenuators, Phase Shifters, DC-DC converters, PMIC
• Strong technical writing and communication skills
• Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills across distributed teams
• Strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule
• Ability to clearly assess and manage risk
• Hands on use of RF measurement equipment to validate performance
• Background with software such as Datapower, JMP, Cadence, Matlab
• Background working with large datasets and applying statistical methods to draw conclusions
• Experience with Cadence for layout and schematic review
• Ability to lead cross functional team of engineers
• Ability to mentor engineers

Nice To Haves

• Experience mentoring junior engineers

Responsibilities

• Ensure new products meet product development requirements prior to production release.
• Define production test plans, define experiments to study product performance and capabilities, analyze test and characterization data to identify performance issues or show product meets marketing requirements.
• Establish standardized test and measurement methods for new product lines.
• Apply data analysis skills to improve product yields during production.
• Review and disposition production lots as necessary.
• Test time reduction.
• Analyze customer returns.
• Able to operate independently.
• Review any changes in production processes and how the change may impact product performance or reliability.
• Perform any necessary electrical characterization to support change qualification.
• Drive failure analysis studies on customer returns or to study failure modes that impact yield.
• Provide technical mentoring to junior product engineers; lead activities and efforts on cross functional teams.

Benefits

• Supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees.
• Does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including “protected veterans” under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company.
• Prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree