Senior Hardware Test Engineer

Company Description

Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth: When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Job Description

Cricut is seeking an experienced and versatile Senior Hardware Test Engineer to join our Hardware Quality Engineering team. You will be responsible to formulating test strategies, designing and developing test plans for new & existing products based on product requirements, engineering specifications and potential customer use cases.

Job Responsibilities:

As a Senior Hardware Test Engineer, we expect the successful candidate to be able to perform the following with minimal oversight and direction, and have the ability to guide, lead, train and mentor others in these tasks as well. 

• Analyzing materials and data, conducting tests, troubleshooting, monitoring performance, ensuring quality control and creating documentation during product development stages
• Developing new methods of testing
• Training technicians and lab workers and directing testing
• Maintaining inventories and ordering test supplies and maintaining lab test equipment
• Stay up to date on industry standards and new developments in the field
• Conduct root-cause analysis through Eight Disciplines (8D), etc. to drive corrective & preventive actions (CAPA) through all stages of the product lifecycle
• Developing test plans for: thermal, humidity, vibration, shock, drop/tumble, HALT/HASS, accelerated aging, etc. which will aid in new product qualification
• Utilize quality engineering tools and techniques such as, gage R&R, SPC, DOE, design for reliability to continuously improve and enhance product reliability.
• Communicate and present defect, failure, risk, and opportunity data to cross functional teams
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to validate manufacturing lines and lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Analyze and recommend product’s readiness at EVT, DVT, MPQ and MP gates
• Work independently and with cross functional teams globally to develop and deliver Product Risk Analysis (DFMEA, PFMEA, NUDD and Lessons Learned) to ensure high risk items are addressed prior to validating the final design. 

Qualifications

Required Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical, Material Science or Electrical Engineering
• 6+ years of hands-on technical work experience in related field
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills with spoken and written English
• Self-starter, capable of working independently while making sound technical/business judgments and building strong cross functional relationships
• Experience with engineering drawings
• Excellent understanding of assembly processes
• Practical experience with thermodynamics
• Practical experience with circuit boards and electronics
• Willingness and ability to commute to and work in our South Jordan office Monday through Friday each week.

Preferred:

• Knowledgeable in production control processes, data analysis six sigma tools such as GR&R, Cp/Cpk, SPC, DOE and correlation analysis.
• Experience with any of the following: mechanical parts, gears, castings, plastic parts, injection molding, tooling, jigs, fixtures, or automotive high-volume quality manufacturing engineering
• Working knowledge of UL/ASTM/ISO testing and standards.
• Experience with process and design failure mode effects analysis (DFMEA and PFMEA)
• Experience conducting IPQC, first-article inspections (FAI), site audits at contract manufacturers and suppliers
• Experience with Minitab or other statistical analysis