Electronic Component Engineer

San Diego, CA

Our Space client in San Diego are looking for an EEE Parts Component engineer to be hands on and provide technical leadership in parts selection process, parts management process, parts creation and quality control.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the development of high technology space programs, including all phases of product development from proposals, through design and on to production support.
• Development of component requirements, parts selection, addressing obsolescence while working closely with design engineers, supply chain, quality, and reliability engineers.
• Drive part standardization by recommending re-use of parts in the database (when appropriate to do so), will work with component manufacturers and distributors to attain their product roadmaps.
• Responsible for ECAD library maintenance and new parts introduction in ECAD library.
• Review Product Change Notices (PCNs) and GIDEP (Government-Industry Data Exchange Program) alerts for their impact on components used, will advise concerned teams upon such alerts and
• Responsible for Data Management and Part Number Management.

Experience Required:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering field and 4 years of experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Experience with component obsolescence tools and methods.
• Experience with end-of-life management, COTS, and counterfeit parts.
• Experience in setting up of EDM and Parts Management practices.
• Understanding of EEE parts qualification and screening requirements.
• Knowledge of JEDEC, EIA and IPC standards as well as applicable military, NASA (EEE-INST-002), and ESA standards.
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance and practices for Electronic Component Management Plan (ECMP).
• Knowledge of PCB CAD designs for various assurance levels and vendor capabilities.
• Knowledge of high-density interconnects relating to micro vias, fuzz/micro buttons, BGA packaging as well as high frequency electronics like RF microwave, MMIC, high speed digital.
• Understanding of analysis techniques like thermal, structural, high speed digital, impedance control, etc.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with grading tools.
• Experience participating in PMPCB reviews, including preparation and presentation of approval requests for non-standard parts.
• Experience in failure analysis/RCCA.
• Design for Manufacturing and Design for Testing.

If you are interested then please apply today.