Staff R&D/Product DVL Engineer

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical product development of judicious projects from market definition through production and release.
• Act as a core team member for mechanical design and design leader for cross-functional teams in concert with the project manager.
• Train colleagues on technical tools and processes.
• Leverage understanding of competitive products and intellectual property for the department.
• Execute on multiple projects concurrently driving technology and product decisions with the team.
• Exercise influence within the department by participating in design reviews of colleagues’ projects.
• Contribute to technical initiatives within the department.
• Drive customer and supplier communications.
• Execute the product development through stages of concept, design, validation, and industrialization.
• Concept new products using engineering tools to create 3D CAD models and work with a cross-functional team to jointly refine these concepts into manufacturable, cost-effective products.
• Perform engineering analysis including mechanical simulations on key features such as spring beams, latches, and compliant pins.
• Create 2D drawings with geometric dimensions and tolerances and conduct tolerance analysis to ensure design intent can be achieved.
• Write specifications and technical documentation including design objectives, application guidelines, validation test plans, and qualification reports.
• Coordinate and support the creation of engineering prototypes and customer samples, formalizing features as needed.
• Work with manufacturing to reconcile dimensionally measured products to 2D drawings.
• Coordinate validation and qualification testing on products to ensure design objectives are met.
• Conduct failure analysis as needed using tools such as CT scans, cross sections, and tear downs to find the root cause for issues and implement solutions.
• Maintain engineering documentation and history files.
• Keep account to the project team on deliverables including honoring timeline commitments.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in mechanical engineering.
• 5 years or more of mechanical engineering product development experience.
• Engineering experience in connector and cable assembly industry strongly preferred.
• Participation in full product development cycle from establishing customer requirements to releasing qualified design to production.
• Demonstrated proficiency in 3D CAD applications, PTC Creo preferred, Ansys SpaceClaim beneficial.
• Demonstrated proficiency in 3D CAE simulation applications, Ansys preferred.
• Ability in geometric dimensions and tolerances and tolerance analysis.
• Detailed understanding of manufacturing processes including stamping, molding, plating, and assembly.
• Design for manufacturing (DFM) to address customer requirements including mechanical, environmental, electrical, manufacturing, and cost.
• Strong interpersonal communication and cross functional teamwork skills.
• Ability to work in a global environment