Job Overview

TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $16 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 80,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com

BUSINESS UNIT DESCRIPTION

As a member of the Digital Data Networks (DDN) business in TE Connectivity you will play a key role in the design of products for high-speed products in the connector, cable assembly, and/or radio system industry—targeting high-speed communications and connectivity within datacenters and wireless infrastructure. 

Role Description:

The High-Speed Cable Assembly Reliability & Testing (R&T) Leader will lead a dedicated team of R&T engineers and will have responsibility for driving standardized Design for Reliability Engineering (DfRE) and Robustness Validation (RV) Methodologies for all High-Speed Cable Assembly Products in the DDN Portfolio.  He/she and their team will work extremely closely with customers, Product Development Engineering (PDE) teams, Manufacturing Process Development Engineering (MPDE) teams, Field Application Engineering (FAE) and Advanced Quality Engineering (AQE) to deeply understand the end application requirements and the associated “mission profile”.  They will partner with the Global R&T COE to drive the application of standardized methodologies and alignment on all Reliability Testing and Test & Validation plans for each of the assigned new product development programs.  They will identify unique product line test needs and application testing requirements and work with the R&T COE to develop custom Test System & Software as required to support the unique testing requirements for each product line.  In addition, he/she will also partner with the Global R&T COE to co-develop Reliability Test Plans and Test & Validation Plans aligned with TE’s LeanPD stage gate approach for product development.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Primary responsibility for developing and driving standardized Design for Reliability Engineering (DfRE) and Robustness Validation (RV) Methodologies for all High-Speed Cable Assembly Products.
•    Drive a DFSS culture, one of innovation, constant learning, and continuous improvement that aspires to deliver "First Time Right"; provide product development and DFSS training, coaching, and mentoring to product design teams to create a world class product development organization.
•    Drive excellence in Design for Reliability ensuring comprehensive utilization of modeling and simulation, structured DOE approaches, robust product validation including HALT/HAST and Test to Failure (TTF) methodologies.  Oversee integrating reliability considerations during technology & product evaluation, NPI product development from receipt of Customer Spec (Mission Profile) through Product Release into mass production; will have T&V Plan + Reliability Test Plan Finalization Authority for High-Speed Cable Assembly Products.
•    Partner with PDE’s to quickly produce and evaluate first samples to expedite speed to market and drive fast and iterative product design improvements; drive Early Concept Testing identifying potential weaknesses and failure mechanisms in the product design and validating all improvements through testing and capability analysis.
•    Work very closely with MPDE about Process Developments and Equipment Developments, developing comprehensive test plans to ensure capability to six sigma standards and driving world-class Simultaneous Engineering (Concurrent Engineering).
•    Design and develop detailed Test & Validation (T&V) plans for Early Validation Testing (EVT), Design Validation Testing (DVT) and Process Validation Testing (PVT), ensuring products are validated to meet customer requirements and TE requirements in accordance with all applicable industry standards.
•    Design and develop Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) Plans in accordance with customer requirements, and coordinate with Manufacturing Quality Engineering (MQE) to ensure proactive detection of latent manufacturing defects, supply chain drift, or design fatigue for products in mass production.
•    Design and develop Packaging Test & Validation Plans to ensure the packaging is optimally designed to protect the product or assembly and minimize the effects of loads experienced during shipping and logistics.
•    Support Mfg Quality with failure analysis (F/A) and Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of line scrap and customer returns as well as competitive benchmarking activities.
•    Lead the identification of special testing needs and requirements and partner with Global R&T COE to develop Custom Test Equipment, Tests & Test Specifications.  Oversee all application testing for High-Speed Cable Assembly Products.
•    Drive high performance organization by providing your team routine coaching and feedback, holding your team accountable to meet performance objectives, and providing meaningful development to increase individual/team capability. 
•    Manage employee well-being by prioritizing work, effectively managing resource loading, and providing flexibility to enable employees to successfully balance their work and personal lives.
•    Drive organization effectiveness by structuring your organization in a way that best enables the BU strategy, maximizes resource efficiency and productivity, and provides role clarity and clear lines of accountability.
•    Manage the talent in your organization to support the business now and to proactively prepare for the future by identifying organization skillset/role gaps, implementing plans to fill any skillset/role gaps, and assessing current talent fit to ensure the right talent is matched to the right roles to best meet the needs of the business.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

ENGINEERS ON HIGH-SPEED CABLE ASSEMBLY PRODUCTS R&T TEAM WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES:

•    Integrate reliability considerations during technology & product evaluation, NPI product development from receipt of Customer Spec (Mission Profile) through Product Release into mass production.
•    Contribute towards requirement engineering. Understand the load requirements clearly to derive inner load and stresses.
•    Drive reliability planning tailored to environmental and use conditions, integrating contingency planning and business impact.
•    Analysis of test data. knowledge on data acquisition methods and system.
•    Apply accelerated test models and test-to-failure strategies to determine reliability limits and identify failure modes.
•    Perform the initial FIT estimation based on data from standards such as Siemens Norm SN-29500.  Calculate final FIT value based on test data.
•    Analyze customer requirements, application requirements and mission profile to determine the optimal validation test to evaluate reliability of DDN products.
•    Lead corrective and preventive action (CAPA) processes for reliability issues across products.
•    Contribute to or manage a centralized database of reliability test plans, models, and field data to promote reuse and faster decision-making.
•    Present reliability status and risks to executive leadership, influencing design decisions and investment in robustness.
•    Leverage on accelerated test methods to explore design margins and to enable fast selection of concepts.
•    Provide guidance on sample size requirements and duration for reliability testing by utilizing reliability statistics.
•    Act as a champion for reliability culture, fostering a proactive and metrics-driven mindset within cross-functional teams.
•    Analyze data from those optimal validation tests to calculate reliability and identify risks or failures.  Calculate MTTF based on test to failure evaluation.
•    For identified risks, support definition of mitigation plans and implementation to improve reliability.
•    For identified high risk failure modes and actual failures, support definition of corrective actions and their implementation to improve reliability.
•    Communicate and interact with customer reliability experts to report on reliability analysis.
•    Participate in design reviews and facilitate the reliability section of the design review.
•    Establish a database of reliability tests, models to be re-used across projects.

Must Have Skills:

    Bachelor/ Master’s degree in technical discipline (Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechatronics)
    10+ years of Experience a high-speed hardware engineering role serving telecommunications market or data center applications.
    Must also have many years of experience working with test equipment, test systems, test labs, development and deployment of HALT/HAST testing, Test & Validation Plans, development of custom test systems and performing “application tests.”  Must have a good balance between theory and practice.
    Experience interacting with global cross-functional engineering teams in multi-site global organization.
    Experience with high speed test equipment (Digital Sampling Oscilloscope, Vector Network Analyzer, Bit Error Rate Tester, TDR, Pattern Generators, Power Supplies, etc.)
    In depth familiarity with IEEE 802.3: The cornerstone for Ethernet networking. Recent iterations (e.g., 802.3ck) define standards for 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s operation over copper and fiber, as well as Next-Gen (800G/1.6T) data center requirements.
    Expertise with electronic assembly product development and validation of hardware and software.
    Excellent English, both verbal and written, and the ability to interact professionally with customers, leadership, stakeholders, cross functional teams and subject matter experts.
    Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and ability to make decisions when presented with a series of challenges, conflicts and constraints.  Ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining strong attention to the details.
    Knowledge on FIT estimation methodology, statistical analysis for reliability calculation such as Weibull-analysis or 2-statistics, application of Bayes theorem, random failure principle, FMEDA, FTA
    Reliability Engineering training from company, ASQ, TUV, Reliasoft or equivalent
    Experience with custom product development, working closely with customers to define mission profile of the end application and optimizing reliability strategy based on customer needs.
    Experience in running statistical analysis for reliability calculation for mechatronic products.
    A high curiosity in understanding how systems/products work along with a reverse engineering mindset.
    Willingness to travel as required, ~20% 

WE VALUE

+    DFSS Blackbelt or DFSS Green Belt Certified
+    Standards Knowledge - ANSI/TIA-942 Standard, ANSI/TIA-568-E Standard,  ISO/IEC 11801 Standard, ISO/IEC 24764 Standard, EIA-364 1000B, IPC Standards for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Assemblies, UL Standards for Data Center Component Level Certifications (i.e. UL 1977, UL 444, UL 817, UL 2416).
+    Knowledge in data center architecture, connectors, sockets, wire harnesses, High-Speed connectivity products, electronics, measurement & signal processing.
+    Experience in product development for data center applications
+    Experience in product development, test & validation of connectors & sockets, High-Speed interconnect solutions.