STAFF R&D/PRODUCT DVL 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. 

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.

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Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

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TE Connectivity in Fremont, CA is looking for a Staff R&D/Product Development Engineer to perform Product development engineering on Socket and socket related hardware. Create CAD models and drawings for customers. Design customized products for the assigned product platforms by following the direction from the team’s manager. Understand the customer’s technical requirements by creating and proposing conceptual design of the sockets, and by interacting with US local sales and product managers. Provide product design proposals and the engineering data to the customers considering the product advantages, manufacturing technology background and cost structure. Find out the customer applications and its use condition for defining the reliability requirements of the Socket product. Create product models and drawings for building functional samples for the customers. Understand TE’s New Product Development process and delivering the engineering outputs like tolerance analysis, risk evaluations. Interface with customers and  provide technical support for US based customers. Support on site visits to customers for engineering discussions. Provide support and feed back to communicate customer needs to TE PDE groups globally. Directly respond to the engineering inquiries from the customer in timely manner, or by coordinate the response with Asia based engineering team as required. Join the regular conference calls and support to delivering or receiving the engineering information correctly sometimes with the translation from English to Mandarin. Acquire the customer’s intent correctly may be by having additional interactions than regular conference calls and guide China based product engineering and plant engineering team to work toward the right direction. Provide the guidance on the documentation on its structure and the content so that the presentations can deliver China engineering team’s intent clearly, often reviewing it from the customer point of view. Requires 20% domestic travel. Telecommuting permitted.       

 

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent), plus 5 years of experience in the job offered, or in a related occupation.

 

Special Requirements: Requires 5 years of experience with the following:

1. Mechanical Design.
2. Connector and socket engineering design.
3. Ability to create 2D and 3D CAD models and drawings based on customer requirements using Computer Aided Design Software.
4. Manufacturing environment and in supporting production engineering.
5. Working directly with customers, supporting sales and marketing efforts.

Requires 20% domestic travel