Product Engineer I
Description
Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.
Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.
Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.
Salary Range: $67,300 - 96,600 per year
Position Summary:
The Product Engineer I will be responsible for bridging the gap between R&D and Production by supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) projects through a structured gated system and will engage internal and external resources to ensure projects are delivered on time, while cost and quality are in line with individual projects requirements and objectives.
This vital role provides the design engineering team with technical and non-technical support, including component characterization, refinement of simulation models, performance optimization, and debugging of components, test fixtures, and Evaluation Boards (EVBs), and data analysis. Additionally, this role will facilitate the creation of production-level documentation, analyze and recommend improvements to production processes/methods to enable cost reductions and quality assurance.
Job Function:
- Coordinating projects to introduce new products and technologies.
- Provide engineering support for:
- Modeling, characterizing, qualifying, and validating production readiness of components
- Electrical characterization, validation, optimization, and correlation of test fixtures, EVBs, and test setups
- Creation of test plans, design of experiments (DOEs), and test block diagrams.
- Assist in the efficient and cost-effective transition of design prototypes from engineering to production by:
- Debugging electrical test failures in the production environment and involving multi-disciplinary teams in the process, as required
- Assisting in setting production-level specs and providing guidance on the overall production test strategy
- Facilitating the release of production-level documentation
- Support the Product Change Notice group in coordinating product development activities as needed.
- Ensure compliance with the Phase Gated Process, Engineering Change Order, and Catalog release processes.
- Analyze and recommend improvements to production processes and methods to facilitate cost reduction and quality assurance.
- Prepare status reports on all owned open projects.
- Assisting business unit leadership and marketing in identifying existing solutions to customer’s applications specific needs.
The duties, responsibilities and expectations described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the member, within the scope of the position.
Qualifications:
- Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering, strongly preferred or Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering with RF & Microwave Engineering coursework.
- Electrical Engineer with relevant experience on microwave circuit design, plus one-year relevant work experience is preferred.
- Must demonstrate project management capabilities.
- Able to demonstrate real-world lab analysis and debugging capabilities.
- Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with component-level design practices, requirements, and budgeting, is preferred.
- Familiarity with Phase Gated Product Development and New Product Introduction (NPI) processes.
- Must have prior experience modeling and simulating in Finite Element (e.g. Ansys HFSS, DS CST, Sonnet, EMPro, Analyst) and Method of Moments simulation software’s (e.g. Keysight Momentum, AWR Axiem, etc.)
- Must be familiar with basic statistical concepts.
- Required knowledge of MATLAB and/or Python.
- Experience with Smartsheet, is preferred.
- Knowledge of CAD software such as DraftSight, is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multi-functional and cross-functional teams to create & support the activities during the life cycle of products, from conception through production within stated time frames.
- Disciplined, motivated, passionate, and humble individual with a behavior heavily driven by great core values.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Additional Requirements/Skills:
- Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
- Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct
Disclaimer: The listed qualifications and requirements for each position are intended as guidelines. Mini-Circuits reserves the right to hire outside of these guidelines at Management’s discretion.
Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.