Position: Electrical Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Santa Barbara, CA

We're looking for a talented Electrical Manufacturing Engineer to join our team . In the realm of Sustaining Engineering, you'll lead supply chain enhancements, resolve end of life issues, and maintain optimal performance for production test equipment. If you're ready to make your mark in electrical manufacturing within the Bruker AFM family, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity

Responsibilities:

General:

• Support the evolution of AFM system control and data acquisition electronics.
• Support evaluation of alternative design approaches by performing analysis, modeling, and tests.
• Support electronics design, analysis, prototyping, and system integration.
• Select electronic components based on function, availability, reliability, and cost.
• Work with functional teams to achieve reliable, manufacturable, serviceable, and testable designs.
• Develop test plans and methodologies to objectively verify performance against requirements.
• Design test fixtures to ensure compliance to product and manufacturing specifications.
• Create product documentation, including BOM's, fabrication files, and assembly drawings.
• Support product and regulatory compliance testing. Ensure compliance with internal and external standards where applicable
• Provide technical troubleshooting and failure analysis for new and existing product lines.
• Document project decisions and provide appropriate cross-functional team communication.
• Serve as technical interface with 3rd party development partners and vendors to ensure quality.
• Support New Product Introduction, Sustaining Engineering, and Quality Engineering activities
• Follow company policies and processes.
• Write, review, approve Engineering Change Orders (ECO)
• Support cross functional teams.
• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Sustaining Engineering (80%):

• Support or lead supply chain improvement projects as needed
• Support production to achieve on time shipment (OTS) and revenue goals.
• Design, develop, test, and qualify product and production improvements (tooling, fixtures, documentation)
• Review and approve first article parts
• Solve "off the shelf" component end of life (EOL) issues, find alternative components
• Create and Improve drawings, documentation, work instructions, BOM, and routings via Engineering Change Order process
• Contribute and lead Material Review Board (MRB) to process non-conforming materials
• Utilize corrective and preventive action process (CAPA) to improve product and processes
• Troubleshoot and test electromechanical and electrical assemblies to support production
• Ensure and improve uptime for production test equipment and tooling
• Support cost reduction activities such as Redesign, Insourcing, Outsourcing, and Resourcing.
• Initiate and contribute to product quality improvement activities

New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineering (10%):

• Work with cross-functional NPI teams for New Product Development from Conceptual phase through Proof of Manufacturing, Volume Production, and End of Life phases.
• Practice and promote (DFx) guidelines, Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, Test, Reliability, and Service.
• Provide feedback to design engineers during design reviews using DFx principles, best practices, and lessons learned from previous projects.
• Lead process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (pFMEA) activities
• Contribute to design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (dFMEA) activities
• Complete manufacturing engineering and quality engineering deliverables during all phases of NPI process
• Create and present progress reports, metrics, and PowerPoints for your projects
• Create quality inspection plans and first article documents for new parts

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in integration and verification of high-performance analog designs
• Experience in FPGAs/microprocessor programming for high-performance applications
• Experience in system controls (e.g., motion, feedback), data acquisition, and analysis.
• Experience in troubleshooting and debugging electronic circuits to the component level.
• Experience in printed circuit board design, analysis, assembly, test, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with OrCAD/Cadence Allegro, Altera/Quartus, and PSpice or similar.
• Strong computer skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Experience in identifying and qualifying alternate components (for PCBAs and other electrical assemblies)
• Experience in interpreting electrical schematics
• Experience in creating and maintaining bills of material (BOM)
• Experience in writing Engineering Changes.
• Experience in writing and editing work instructions and routings.
• Experience in preparing and presenting project updates and reports
• Ability to work independently, strong team player, detail oriented, organized, and hands-on.
• Some travel to vendor and other international Bruker sites may be required (< 5%).
• Ability to make decisions, and effectively lead tasks and meet challenging deadlines.
• Ability to build strong relationships and effectively partner with others.
• Ability to multi-task in a rapid paced environment.
• Ability to mentor others as needed.
• Strong work ethic, team oriented, curious, creative, and committed to quality.
• Strong communication abilities, both verbally and written.
• US Citizenship or Permanent Residence required

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with electronic design for scientific instrumentation, metrology equipment, or similar products involving high-performance control and data acquisition
• Experience with power supplies (switching and linear) and high voltage designs
• Experience with standards such as IPC, ISO and CE (EMC & Safety)
• Experience with SAP (or a similar complex ERP system)
• Experience in Solid works, Solid Edge
• Experience managing third party contractors.
• Familiar with ISO9001 requirements, continuous improvement, and Six Sigma principles.
• Experience in a similar, highly engineered, low volume, high mix, capital equipment environment that includes mechanical, electronic, and software composition.
• Experience in process-oriented business environment.