SR R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEER

Job Overview

TE Connectivity’s R&D/Product Development Engineering Teams conceive original ideas for new products, introduce them into practice. They are responsible for product development, and qualification from market definition through production and release; assist in the qualification of suppliers for new products to ensure suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services for new or improved manufacturing processes; conduct feasibility studies, testing on new and modified designs; direct and support detailed design, testing, prototype fabrication and manufacturing ramp. The R&D/Product Development Engineering Teams provide all required product documentation including, but not limited to, Solid Model, 2D/3D production drawings, product specifications, and testing requirements. They create and modify detailed drawings and drafting or conceptual models from layouts, rough sketches or notes and contribute to design modifications to facilitate manufacturing operation or quality of product. Typical fields of expertise include: materials, mechanics and systems, electrical, optics, chemistry, software, automation systems, packaging, testing and measurement, and manufacturing of electrical, mechanical and electronic components, products, and their integration into systems.

What your background should look like:

Position Overview:
1. Support product development of connectors, terminals, sensors, relays and smart junction boxes for automotive applications.
2. Innovate original ideas for new products, responsible for product development and qualification from market definition/customer needs to production and release: leading generation of product specifications, product concept design, circuit design and simulation, prototype assembly and debugging, and product verification. To ensure that the designed products can meet market and project requirements.
3. Study mechanical, electrical and thermal performance of above products with simulation tools. 
4. Study SerDes technology of high-definition video signal and its requirements on connectivity.
5. Assist in the qualification of suppliers for new products to ensure suppliers deliver qualified parts, materials, and services for new or improved manufacturing processes. 

Responsibilities:
1. Innovating original ideas and design proposal for new products, studying the feasibility of customer specifications and finish product specification.
2. Cooperating with relevant teams and members in the project, leading design and solve technical problems through cooperation with them. Support engineers to complete preliminary design concept and drawings. Support engineers to complete sample preparation, testing, data collection and analysis. Create electronic component models for PCB layout. Study PCB thermal performance with software tools and experiments. Investigate SerDes technology, to understand its requirements on connecting systems, and prepare samples and complete tests.
3. Leading product design review with function team and technical review with customer and communicating with supplier feasibility study of components material. 
4. Providing innovative solutions to reduce product cost, improving product quality, and improving process efficiency, documents and communicates potential IP to ensure TE's IP is protected.
5. Providing technical support for customers and Sales Engineers: ensure proper application of products in the field.
6. Other work related to product development.

Qualifications: 
1. Academic background:
- Mechanical and related engineering majors;
- Electronic, electric, automatic and related engineering majors;
- Electronic, communication and related engineering majors, with good knowledge of SerDes technology;
- Electric engineering, with experience of high voltage and arcing;
- Material engineering and related majors.
2. Good skills on the following software tools
3. Fluent in English or Japanese, both oral and Witten. 
4. Good teamwork, and willing to make contribution to team
 

Competencies