RELIABILITY ENGINEER

One of our clients, a major electronics manufacturer is looking for a talented RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Permanent position with excellent compensation package and benefits. Salary range is 100 - 117K.

Location: Metro NY area (onsite)

** Must be authorized to work for ANY employer in US
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RELIABILITY ENGINEER

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years experience as a Reliability Engineer in Electronics or equivalent industry.
• Familiarity with common industry standards including JEDEC, MIL-STD-883, MIL-STD-202 and AEC-Q.
• Experience with Reliability Qualification by Similarity.
• Experience with Environmental, Mechanical and ESD stresses.
• Understanding of failure analysis techniques including Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SEM), Radiographic Inspection (X-Ray), Cross-Section methods.
• Familiarity with MTTF, MTBF Calculations.
• Experience with Reliability prediction modeling and tools like Weibull++ (or equivalent reliability software)
• Experience with Data analysis tools including Advanced Excel, JMP, Minitab.
• Ability to analyze component performance data in reliability tests, including large variety of test parts and multiple design variations.
• Experience with Design of Experiments, FMEA, product design reviews and DFM.

SKILLS:

• Participate in the product development meetings and guide the team to develop reliable products that meet internal specifications and customer requirements.
• Develop qualification plans for new products, primarily MMICs but also support other product lines including but not limited to Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics, PCBA products, RF accessories and Core & Wire Products.
• Analyze new products for similarity with existing released products in terms of package, die process and design to determine Qualification by Similarity, thus streamlining qualification testing.
• Design and execute both device level and package level qualification tests including but not limited to MSL pre-conditioning, Thermal cycling, UHAST, HTSL, ESD and Life Tests.
• Define ESD Human Body Model (HBM) and Charged Device Model (CDM) tests as per JEDEC standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering Test Teams to execute Accelerate Life Tests, High Temperature Operating Life Test.
• Execute Mechanical stresses such as Vibration, Mechanical Shock, Constant Acceleration & Bend Testing.
• Co-ordinate with external labs for outsourced tests.
• Review RF Test data before and after stresses to analyze changes is performance.
• Collaborate with Failure Analysis teams to understand the root cause of failures.
• Identify and record any non-conformities. Monitor solution implementations to verify effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Present Qualification results with all relevant stakeholders to help Design teams initiate changes to improve reliability performance.
• Interface with customers and suppliers on product reliability and with suppliers to purchase lab equipment.
• Support reliability assessments originating from production of released products or customer returns.
• Promotes ISO9001/AS9100 Quality.

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials, Reliability, Industrial Engineering or Physics. Advanced degree preferred.