Job Description
Job Title:  SR R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEER
Posting Start Date:  4/23/26
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 
Job Description: 

Job Overview

-    Innovate original ideas for new products, introduce them into practice.
-    Responsible for product development and qualification from market definition to production and release.
-    Conduct feasibility study and testing on new/modified designs.
-    Lead and support detailed design, testing, prototype fabrication and manufacturing ramp.
-    Provide all required product documentation including, but not limited to, 3D Model, 2D drawings, product specifications, and testing requirements. 
-    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. 
-    Assist in the qualification of suppliers for new products to ensure suppliers deliver qualified parts, materials, and services for new or improved manufacturing processes. 
-    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.

Job Requirements

  • -    Designing and developing new products to meet customer requirements within scope, schedule, and budget constraints by following TE LeanPD process.
    -    Innovating original ideas and design proposal for new products, studying the feasibility of customer specifications.
    -    Leading new product technical data output, such as: 3D, 2D drawing and Design objective. 
    -    Initiating product design document, such as: PRD, DV/PV plan, Product review, Initial BOM, DFMEA and Significant Characteristic. 
    -    Leading product design review with function team and technical review with customer, and communicating with supplier feasibility study of components material. 
    -    Performing engineering calculations to analyze and describe product to ensure robust design with economic cost.
    -    Working with FAI approvals, technical risk analysis, supporting 8D report and 5 WHY analysis, judging manufacturing deviations and making decisions on deviation acceptance.
    -    Improving and enlarging existing products, quality improve and manufacture engineering support. Helping resolve technical problems or providing solutions of avoiding problems to ensure accurate implementation of production.
    -    Understanding product testing procedures and equipment, reviewing evaluation or test report and confirming accuracy of report contents to ensure product meets quality specification.
    -    Reviewing patent searches to evaluate patentability of proposed designs to ensure that others' patents are not infringed upon.  
    -    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.
    -    Providing technical support to customers and Sales Engineers to ensure proper application of products in the field.
    -    Understanding the HSPM (Hazardous Substance Process Management) related goals in the department
    and the target of Customer HSF requirement evaluation ratio. 
    -    Transfer the HSF requirement for organization or customer to design specification clearly.
    -    Understanding the HSF related regulations requirements. 
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What your background should look like

Education
 -    B.S. of Engineering or Master or PHD, Mechanical Engineering preferred.

Experience
 -    B.S. of Engineering with 5 or more years of experience or Masters of 
-    Science with 2 or years of experience or PHD
Technical Skill & Competencies
-    Be familiar with product development process and related product manufacturing process.
-    Understanding of special characteristic significance for customer and TE
-    Understanding of basic automotive industry core tools, such as APQP, FMEA and PPAP.
-    A complete understanding and wide application of technical theories, principles, engineering tools and techniques, such as: GD&T, DFM, DFA, DFSS, etc.
-    Ability to skillful use Cero software and drawing design, tolerance calculation.
-    Familiar with stamping, plating, molding, assembly and machine Application process.
-    Understanding of relevant technical standards and law regulations.
-    Ability to build strong internal/external working relationship.
-    Effective Interacts and communication within the team.
-    Ability to perform complicated product development.
-    Be familiar with the customers' requirements and transforms them into design objectives through communication with the customer.  
-    Be familiar with related automotive standards such as USCAR, SAE, etc.
-    English Good.
-    Understanding the HSPM related requirements in the department.

Competencies

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

Job Locations:

8F 9F 1001 17F 19F Building G1 Suzhou 2.5 Industrial P
Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123
China

Posting City:  Suzhou
Job Country:  China
Travel Required:  10% to 25%
Requisition ID:  150954
Workplace Type:  Onsite
External Careers Page:  Engineering & Technology