Test Engineering Manager
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Operations and Supply Chain
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With the growth of Apple products across the board, we have created new opportunities for individuals to work on the most exciting new products introduced by Apple. We are seeking for individual with strong RF knowledge and engineering experience to join us for this position, which will be working closely with the various engineering entities to support the needs for product manufacturing and test.
Key Qualifications
- - 5+ years of work experience in any of assembly, inspection, test station design, test development, maintenance and / or automation equipment
- - Required to understand, plan development builds and mass production with factories worldwide.
- - Experienced in working with cross functional teams such as hardware design, system teams, capital equipment, quality and process engineering
- - Knowledgeable in crafting tester qualification requirements including calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability and reproducibility, design of experiments and failure analysis
- - Able to communicate effectively in a worldwide environment
- - Excellent leadership skills, ability to plan, prioritize, track and implement through leading internal and cross functional teams as well as contract manufacturers and external vendors to deliver
- - Good understanding of consumer electronics product manufacturing and control processes, with strong statistical data analytic skills, Machine Learning application knowledge and experience is a strong plus
- - Proficiency in spoken and written English, Mandarin is a plus.
- - Able to adapt to 30-50% travel.
Description
- Manage a team of multidisciplinary engineers to develop, validate and deploy next generation test solutions in the aforementioned technology areas
- Design for Testability - Provide early and on going manufacturing involvement to ensure new products are being tested in a logical and cost effective manner incorporating FMEA, product design targets using the Engineering Requirements Specification (ERS).
- Product Life Cycle Engineering - Works all phases of a product from concept to repeat manufacturing to end of life. Provides production support engineering with respect to technically complex testing methods, procedures and failure analysis.
- Develop process to collect and analyze production, including assembly, inspection and test, data across supply chain to facilitate continuous cycles of optimization through predictive calibration/sampling through ML, generating solid savings on operation cost without compromising quality.
- Failure/Data Analysis - Plans, develops and implements procedures for the testing and evaluation of soon to be released products. Specifies test to be performed, compiles data and makes recommendations for test or tester design changes. This will include the use of Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Develop new and or improved processes through the application of theoretical and practical engineering
- Keeps abreast of the technical trends and developments and incorporates them in appropriate assignments
- Provide direction and mentorship to third party vendors/automation suppliers and/or CM’s; be the technical leader and driver on owned projects; serve as a technical resource to other engineering groups and project leaders
Education & Experience
- BS or MS/PHD in Engineering/Physics or equivalent