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Vicor · 1 day ago

Reliability Engineer

Andover, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$80K/yr - $110K/yr

3+ years exp

Vicor is seeking a Reliability Engineer with past electronics experience to join the team. The Reliability Engineer will focus on ongoing reliability programming and theoretical calculations, ensuring product reliability is a key consideration in development while working cross-functionally to drive projects to completion.

AerospaceElectronicsIndustrial AutomationManufacturingSemiconductorTelecommunications

No H1B

Responsibilities

Develops and implements qualification plans and methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates

Schedules, coordinates and executes said qualification plans and methods in accordance with agreed time frames

Monitor new product reliability growth/demonstration activities against targets, to ensure sufficient progress toward those targets is being achieved

Develops and implements ongoing reliability monitoring methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates. Provide trend analysis on critical to reliability parameters

Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current products, and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs

Works with Design on development projects to ensure product reliability is a key consideration in development

Working in a team environment, resolve reliability problems that result in excessive in-house or customer failure rates

Provide guidance to internal groups and interface with customers regarding reliability questions or concerns

Monitors reliability metrics and goals to drive quality improvement efforts

Distributes reports that track product and/or process reliability performance to internal groups and to customers

Make recommendations for test, burn-in screening and life test capital equipment acquisition

Provides acceleration tests results based on physics and best fit reliability models

Analyze field performance MTTF, FIT , Survival 2,5,10 yr data based on Weibull and Weibayse models

Qualification

Reliability engineeringPower conversion theoryFMEAStatistical quality controlReliability prediction calculationsElectronic circuitsDesign of ExperimentsInfluencing othersMS Office proficiencyCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProject management

Required

Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science

Minimum of 3-5 years related experience

Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others

Detailed knowledge of statistical quality control parameters and characterization of yield changes in anticipated product lifetime and quality reliability outcomes

Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers and/or suppliers

Ability to use some or all of the following PC applications: MS Office, MS Project, MS Vision, MiniTab, JMP, in generating reports, capturing data, and presenting data and information in an understandable format

Knowledge and understanding of business processes and how decisions impact customer satisfaction, product quality, and on-time delivery

Demonstrated Experience in the following: MILHDK217 and Telcordia Reliability Prediction Calculations, Various aspects of the physics of failure of PCBs, and/or electronic components, Electronic circuits, components, PCBs and manufacturing processes, State-of-the-art reliability assessment methods and techniques, FMEA, Design of Experiments