Systems Engineer III

Systems Engineer - Systems Engineer III

Location: Redmond, Washington (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

The Build Reliability Engineer (BRE) will ensure complex Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) products and any design revisions are properly qualified and implemented in manufacturing. This role oversees the New/Revised Product Introduction process and ongoing builds, focusing on quality, reliability, process improvement, and risk reduction from prototype through production. The successful candidate will work with engineering and production teams to assure effective implementation of Design for Manufacturing (DfM), Design for Quality (DfQ), and Design for Reliability (DfR) principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with design and manufacturing engineering teams to understand key manufacturing, quality, and reliability Critical to Function (CtF) attributes and/or parameters.
• Oversee implementation of appropriate manufacturing process and reliability control plans.
• Review and approve or reject the results of product and process qualification activities.
• Perform relevant analyses of process control, measurement, and reliability data to facilitate real-time, data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with production teams to improve existing processes for yield, cost, and throughput with negligible impact on quality and reliability.
• Investigate production inspection, test, and reliability screening failures to identify failure mode, underlying mechanism, and proximate causes for implementation of corrective action.
• Review and approve or reject nonconforming product dispositions for flight hardware to assure negligible impact on reliability.

Required Qualifications

Education: A bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline, physics, or a similar field is required.

Experience: Candidates must have experience with analytical methodologies associated with materials/failure analysis, fabrication and assembly of PCBs and PCBAs, and conducting statistical data analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Manufacturing process development experience.
• New Product Introduction (NPI) experience.
• Production and supplier quality experience.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay rate for this position is between $64.00 and $74.00 per hour. Compensation may vary depending on factors including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, and location. A benefits package may be available for eligible employees.

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

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