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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. They will be comfortable presenting information cross-functionally and take initiative to drive projects to completion.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science
Minimum of 3-5 years related experience
Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC preferred
Certified as a CRE preferred
Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others
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
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
Nice to have:
Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC preferred