Sr. Research & Development Product Development Engineer

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

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Job Overview

TE Connectivity’s R&D/Product Development Engineering Team conceives original interconnect ideas and solutions for the challenges encountered in the harsh environments found in aerospace and defense applications. In a well-balanced role, exposed to a wide range of fields providing deep insight into the design, manufacturing, and testing of mechanical and electronic components and systems, the team is responsible for new product development and qualification from market definition through production release; assisting in the qualification of suppliers to ensure suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services for new or improved manufacturing processes; conduct feasibility and manufacturability studies, testing on new, modified and optimized 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 Models, 2D/3D production drawings, product specifications, and testing requirements.

Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware, or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations.  Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate.  If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

Responsibilties

As a SR R&D/Product Development Engineer on our North America Connectors team, within the Aerospace, Defense & Marine business unit, your responsibilities will be:

Responsibilities

• Responsible for product development from market definition through production and release.
• Act as a core team member for the mechanical design of products
• Execute multiple projects concurrently contributing to technology and product decisions
• Participate in customer and supplier communications.
• Exercise influence and provide support to junior engineers in project execution and decision making.
• Execute product development through stages of concept, design, validation, and industrialization.
• Concept new products using engineering tools to create 3D CAD models and work with a cross-functional team to jointly refine these concepts into manufacturable, cost-effective products.
• Perform engineering analysis including mechanical simulations on key features and components
• Create 2D drawings with geometric dimensions and tolerances and conduct tolerance analysis to ensure design intent can be achieved.
• Write specifications and technical documentation including design objectives, application guidelines, validation test plans, and qualification reports.
• Coordinate and support the creation of engineering prototypes and customer samples, validating features as needed.
• Work with manufacturing to reconcile dimensionally measured products to 2D drawings.
• Coordinate validation and qualification testing on products to ensure design objectives are met.
• Conduct failure analysis as needed using tools such as CT scans, cross sections, and tear downs to determine the root cause for issues and implement solutions.
• Maintain engineering documentation and history files.
• Keep account to the project team on deliverables including honoring timeline commitments.

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