Lead NPI Engineer, Optical Components

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Product, Technology Development, and Program Management (60%)
+ Design and deploy new thermal and thermoelectric products with minimal manager supervision to meet or exceed customer technical requirements.
+ Conceive of and perform thermal-mechanical design/modeling analyses using both internal TE design software and Ansys Mechanical simulation tools.
+ Independently verify model and design results for accuracy using first-law principles and empirical testing.
+ Manage assigned projects with minimal manager supervision to ensure and adherence to project delivery dates and budgets.
+ Effectively use application tools (spreadsheets, modeling tools, product management processes, etc.) to meet or exceed schedule targets.
+ Follow the Product Development Process and actively maintain project statuses in the Phase Gate project development tool.
+ Participate in internal and external Quality audits.
+ Proactively identify and communicate technical and schedule risks to management and work to identify and solve problems before they occur.
+ Conceive of, propose, and champion product-related technology development projects.
+ Communicate design and testing results to the technical community through technical reports/memos, presentations, and training sessions.
+ Provide status updates on project progress during weekly engineering team meetings.
+ Support other team members in completing assigned tasks independently and on-time.
+ Follow and propose updates for internal engineering design guidelines.
+ Contribute to the improvement of engineering design tools.
+ Support identifying causes and proposing resolutions to Return Goods and Failure Analysis issues.
+ Respond directly to product reliability and qualification requests with limited manager supervision, author reliability reports/data, and manage product specific reliability and qualification testing.
+ Participate in problem solving sessions with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
+ Support the manufacturing floor during prototype builds and testing of new products.
+ Develop working (hands-on) familiarity with our internal manufacturing processes - ceramic and element dicing, metallization plating, thick-film metallization, lapping, stencil printing, soldering, dispensing, pick-n-place machinery, cleaning processes, etc.
+ Develop a working (hands-on) familiarity with internal laboratory equipment - power supplies, Delta T tester, EZ tester, thermal chambers, DAQ's, flow meters, IR camera, ACR meter, fume hoods, thermal cycle tester, etc.
+ Work with Procurement Team and external suppliers to ensure purchased parts meet technical and quality requirements.


* Business Operations and Product Sales (30%)
+ Directly communic...