Support Engineer III

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Position : Component Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay range: $45.00 - $51.00/hourly

Job Description:

• As a Component Engineer, you will be at the heart of the hardware design process. You will have the opportunity to apply your skills as part of a world-class team, working collaboratively with cross-functional groups to help bring some of the best-selling consumer electronics products to market.

Key job responsibilities:

• Review all requests for new components and assure that the parts can satisfy the existing design requirements.
• Assign inventory part numbers and construct standardized descriptions for all new parts.
• Establish and maintain specifications for custom and off-the-shelf components.
• Generate specifications for new custom parts.
• Assist design engineers in the selection of parts that best fit their requirements.
• Read and understand electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and component data sheets.
• Work within the parameters of PLM to coordinate component approval and EOL/Obsolete status.
• Authorize ECO's (Engineering Change Orders) written against component and specifications.
• Interface with the ECAD team in the maintenance of Libraries and Databases.
• Coordinate failure analysis and root cause/corrective actions with internal and vendor teams.
• Experience in dealing with external labs.
• Value engineering (cost reduction). Work with cross-functional teams to source and suggest alternate parts.
• Teams will include SW Development, Operations Management, Materials Management, and Hardware Design Engineering.
• Participate in product design reviews.
• Test plan execution and creation.

A day in the life:

• As a CE, in a HW Development Role, you will support all phases of the hardware development process including support of a component selection strategy that ensures part availability throughout the product development process; detect and prevent component issues that would impact successful product launch.
• You will juggle priorities without losing sight of the customer, the project schedule and planned launch milestones.
• Forging collaboration between the engineering, operations, and global commodity management groups to ensure that the component choices fit the goals and objectives of the design through production, sustaining, and obsolescence stages.
• The Component Engineer will assist in maintaining the AVL by creating Engineering change orders, assigning part numbers, and maintaining part descriptions

Top Must Have Hard Skills :

• Experienced with many types of components such as SoC's, chipsets, memories, PMIC's, MOSFET's, diodes, resistors, inductors, capacitors, connectors and cable assemblies.
• Demonstrated competence in the usage of digital oscilloscopes, multi-meters, LCR meters, curve-tracers, and related component test equipment.
• Experienced with ROHS/WEEE requirements and current exemptions.
• Experienced interfacing with contract manufacturers

Leadership Principles :

• Customer obsession, Bias for action, Insist on Highest Standard

Years of Experience :

• 3+ year's experience in a similar role

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

• Degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or related field

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.