Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Senior Product Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Product Engineer to work with our R&D, manufacturing, operations, and field teams to deliver unique portable radar systems for safety and security purposes. The role is part of a growing, innovative product development team, well known for delivering unique and differentiated RF systems.
Responsibilities:
- Support/drive development efforts of sub-circuit, board, and module level verification test and production test for RF products and systems.
- Support/drive product-level environmental and regulatory tests for RF products and systems.
- Work closely with hardware and software teams to transition designs into production, including documentation and process optimization.
- Create, document and conduct comprehensive testing on hardware components and systems to ensure compliance with performance and reliability.
- Product Technical documentation, evaluation kit (EVK) bill of materials, user guides (in cooperation with R&D andSales teams), and all materials to ensure a positive customer “out of box” experience.
- Optimize system configurations for customer applications, including final software programming of product before customer shipment.
- MOL activities including support of field investigations, driving root cause analysis of product customer returns, and recommending current and future product improvements.
- Support root cause efforts for manufacturing yield impacts and ongoing defects.
- Support prototype and production builds and associated internal and customer deliveries.
- Participate in team reviews of hardware design, hardware/software/firmware partitioning, and implementations.
- Define and implement Quality and Reliability aspects for current and future products, including ALT, HALT, and other related tests.
Skills:
Thorough knowledge of RF Systems; mmWave experience is preferred.
- Expert in creating complex RF test solutions.
- Experienced in drawing conclusions from statistics and interpolation; capable of driving root cause analysis and action plans
- Experience in establishing a scalable product manufacturing and test environment.
- Demonstrated hardware debugging skills using bench equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, DC power, etc.).
- Experience with product level environmental and regulatory tests including thermal shock, over temperature tests with and without humidity, vibration (product and shipping), drop, salt fog, ESD, water/dust ingress, and thermal measurements per applicable standards.
- Some software experience including C, Python, LabVIEW, and Matlab.
- Demonstrated success in technical problem-solving skills, and leadership of solving these systemically across an organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, good interpersonal skills.
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required.
- 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- Must be a US citizen, with the ability to obtain US government security clearance.
- Domestic and/or international travel – 10%.
Position:
- Reports to Product Engineering/OperationsManager
- This role resides in our Hoffman Estates, Illinois location.
- Highly competitive health and benefits, paid time off, and a collaborative team environment.