Senior Electronics Cost Estimator

Position Summary

The Senior Electronics Cost Estimating Engineer is the corporate subject matter expert for electronics cost estimating, design-to-cost architecture, and competitive electronics benchmarking.

This role leads the electronics technical and cost-estimating activities associated with new customer RFQs, engineering changes, awarded programs, competitive teardowns, and reverse-engineering studies.

The engineer reviews customer RFQ packages, identifies and interprets applicable electronics requirements, and works with assigned Electronics and Systems Engineers to develop the lowest-cost compliant electronic architecture, preliminary schematic, and costed electronic Bill of Materials (eBOM).

The position requires a senior-level electronics engineer who can move between requirements analysis, system architecture, circuit design, component selection, Altium schematic/eBOM development, component costing, PCB/PCBA manufacturing cost analysis, supplier engagement, reverse engineering, and management-level cost communication.

The engineer serves as the primary Electronics Engineering interface between Engineering, Purchasing, global manufacturing teams, and the electronics supplier base for cost and quotation activities.

This engineer is expected to lead estimating workstreams, guide supporting engineers, challenge unnecessary cost and architecture complexity, apply lessons learned from teardown activities, and provide technically defensible cost estimates - often under aggressive RFQ timing, including occasional turnaround requirements of less than 24 hours.

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