Tarana is a fast revenue growth company built by outstanding talented people and with innovative technology. Our hardware development team is looking for a smart, experienced, and hardworking member working on electronic components to support new product design as well as supply chain demands. This is a high visibility role and the ideal candidate needs to be able to work with HW, RF, Testing, OPS, and other cross functional teams, has a passion for solving problems efficiently and a desire to continuously improve it, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Job Responsibilities:
- BOM scrubbing to address obsolescence, lead time issue, product enhancement and cost reduction activities
- Supplier PCN reviews, Manufacturing Change Notifications, supplier risk evaluation, supplier audits
- Monitor, identify and resolve all lifecycle issues and assist supply chain management team to identify appropriate substitutes for electric/electronic/electro-mechanical components.
- Finding alternate parts from different supplier with exact form, fit and function (perform Like for Like analysis/technical spec comparison study)
- Design Analysis – Like to like analysis during part change, Power, Derating, Tolerance, Thermal Analysis, Signal Integrity, DFM, DFA, DFT, and EMC etc.
- Maintain REACH/RoHS Compliance status on all components and system level assemblies
- Perform detailed Impact, Risk Analysis and feasibility testing
- Performing component level, Subassembly module, system level integration and Design verification testing to qualify the proposed alternates
- Create/analyze test reports based on results from test execution
- Change initiation creation as per design change process, Implementation of Engineering Change Order (ECO), PLM updates and Design Transfer
- Coordination with different supplier/test labs
Required Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field with 5 to 12 years of relevant experience
- Hardware test equipment usage (eg. spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes)
- Knowledge of wireless networks and products
- Conduct failure analysis and perform Root cause analysis for failed units from field
- Ability to create ECOs, Deviations etc. in Arena BOM management environment
The salary range for this position is: $130,000 to $175,000
Compensation will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to: skill set, years of experience and the employee’s geographic location.
Tarana provides competitive benefits to employees in this role including: Medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, flexible time off and stock option.
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What We Do
Tarana’s mission is to accelerate the deployment of fast, affordable internet access around the world. Through a decade of R&D and more than $400M of investment, the Tarana team has created a unique next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) technology instantiated in its first commercial platform, Gigabit 1 (G1). It delivers a game-changing advance in broadband economics in both mainstream and underserved markets, using either licensed or unlicensed spectrum. G1 started production in mid-2021 and has since been embraced by more than 250 service providers in 19 countries and 41 US states.
Tarana is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with additional research and development in Pune, India. Visit our website for more on G1.