Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Develop, deploy and maintain the inspection networks for the new and existing products on the state-of-the-art camera-based vision inspection systems.
• Interpret Drawings, Inspection standards and Control plans to create a robust and efficient measurement/inspection program for OMM/Vision Inspection Systems
• Develop and execute qualification plans to verify and validate inspection network accuracy and precision.
• Provide timely and accurate project status, documentation, and training.
• Support in-line and end-of-line inspection and functional test activities
• Perform gage capability, GR&R (MSA), tool matching, and measurement uncertainty studies for metrology equipment.
• Create calibration plans, coordinate calibration activities and maintain records, ensure that all test and measurement equipment is calibrated prior to use.
• Work closely with engineers from different teams in regard to continuous improvement activities, solving metrology and yield problems and improving overall product quality
• Maintain documentation required based on customer, regulatory, and system-level requirements
• Lead failure analysis, root cause understanding of the failure and analyzing field exposure risk in the event of a failure

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with machine vision systems in a PCB, Consumer Electronics, Automotive or similar field

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Independent problem solver with a desire to learn new skills and develop new technology
• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented mind set
• Able to adapt to changing requirements in a fast-paced start-up setting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, and ability to work in a collaborative team environment

A qualified candidate will have a subset of these skills:

• Experience developing AI and deep learning-based machine vision metrology applications where defects can be trained using simple UI’s
• Ability to differentiate among various defect conditions and train the vision system to detect them.
• Experience in inspecting parts/samples or training others for inspection
• Working experience with or knowledge of Quality disciplines (8D, APQP, Six Sigma)
• Expert in metrology development and fundamentals of the methodology, gage capability, process capability.
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is highly desired.
• Experience in CMM, OMM programming is highly desired.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentation), with ability to discuss technical materials with wide range of audiences
• Self-starter – not afraid to get your hands dirty, take the lead, wear different “hats” depending on the day in a fast-paced startup atmosphere
• Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours: 

Salaried Exempt

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment – 

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines

PPE-

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump-caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures