Staff 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 Teams conceive original ideas for new products and 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, and 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 Models, 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.

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 before 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.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and design objectives, application guidelines, validation test plans, and qualification reports.
• Understand customer requirements and their technical roadmaps
• Understand and keep abreast of market trends and industry standards
• Direct interface with development engineers, customers, new business development and product managers, sales, manufacturing engineering, test lab, model & pre-production shop resources.
• Drive customer and supplier communications
• Lead technical product development of judicious projects from market definition through production release
• Exercise influence within the department as technical & engineering tool lead and mentor, driving technology and product decisions
• Concept new products using engineering tools to create 3D CAD models and work with cross-functional teams to jointly refine into manufacturable, cost-effective products.
• Perform engineering analysis including mechanical simulations on key features and components. 
• Create 2D Drawings with geometric dimensions and conduct tolerance analysis to ensure design intent can be achieved,
•  Write specifications and technical documentation including support the creation of engineering prototypes and customer samples, and formalizing 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 find the root cause for issues and implement solutions.
• Maintain engineering documentation and history files.<