What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer 1 position at Marki Microwave Inc?
JOB SUMMARY
As a Reliability Engineer I at Marki Microwave, you will be a key member of the Quality & Reliability team responsible for reliability engineering activities that support Marki’s best-in-class RF hybrid devices, packaged ICs and bare die. In this role your primary focuses are on new product qualifications and ongoing reliability studies. You will use your ability to design and conduct reliability studies, analyze data, draw accurate conclusions, and clearly communicate your results to internal company stakeholders on multiple programs running in parallel. You will also take the lead on failure investigations, and activities and initiatives that continually improve Marki reliability performance.
This role will require access to access information controlled under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 CFR §§ 730-780),and likely the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR, 22 CFR §§ 120-130), and so applicants for this position must be one of a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or other Protected Individual (as defined under 8 USC § 1324b(a)(3)).
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own reliability activities for the full portfolio of Marki devices, from new product introduction to ongoing monitoring of production released products.
- Responsible to create, analyze and maintain system reliability models based on industry accepted quality and reliability concepts and methodologies.
- Manage multiple new product qualifications in parallel with respect to individual schedules and budgets.
- Work with the development engineering team to design robust qualification plans for RF hybrid devices, packaged ICs and bare die using device and component appropriate methods and conditions.
- Coordinate reliability and durability tests at the technology, product and/or package level with the quality engineering team following industry standards such as MIL-SPEC, JEDEC, space grade certifications and/or customer specified reliability testing.
- Review source control documents to determine the appropriate stress tests and test methods, electrical and mechanical limits required.
- Coordinate with external test labs to get products tested and supervise the labs to ensure the tests were performed according to the test conditions.
- Analyze stress test results using industry accepted quality and reliability concepts and methodologies, and create clear, concise reports and recommendations to team members and management.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions stemming from reliability qualification failures.
- Understand electrical and physical failure analysis techniques, such as SEM, CSAM,
- OM, Thermal Microscopy and FIB.
- Devise and own the ongoing reliability monitoring (ORM) program to ensure the quality
- of Marki products is maintained at the highest levels of quality.
- Support the evaluation and selection of reliability test equipment consistent with Marki product portfolio and strategy.
- Design and track reliability metrics and analyses of product performance variation.
- Support ongoing quality and reliability improvements in Manufacturing by applying knowledge and practice of methodologies and techniques including FMEA, statistical limit setting and SPC.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Material Science and Engineering, Quality Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 1-2 years’ experience as a Reliability Engineer in an electronics production environment. Some understanding of RF engineering concepts is a definite plus, and SMT experience is highly desired.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
- Little to some experience with RF reliability methodologies encompassing semiconductor devices and components.
- Good understanding of electronics industry quality standards (ISO, MIL-STD, JEDEC), reliability test methods, acceleration models used for life predictions, and sampling statistics.
- Little to some familiarity with RF design and testing, wafer fabrication processes, assembly processes, semiconductor device physics, failure analysis of ICs, 8D methodology, structural problem solving and statistical analysis.
- Experience working with 3rd party test labs.
- Experience with Minitab, Weibull , Python, MATLAB, or other data acquisition and analysis software is desirable. The ability to write software code is a definite plus.
- Excellent analytical skills, strong attention to detail, and ability to use data-driven approaches to resolve quality issues.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and organizational skills.
- Proactive, self-motivated, team player – capable of working well independently and within a team
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Business Acumen: Awareness and knowledge of and insight into the organization’s vision, structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, values, and code of ethics; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to diverse situations. Knowledge, insight, and understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
- Change: Knowledge of and ability to align the organization’s people and culture with changes in business strategy, organizational structure, technology and business processes.
- Communication: Successful communication involves five components. Verbal communication refers to your ability to speak clearly and concisely. Nonverbal communication includes the capacity to project positive body language and facial expressions. Written communication refers to your skillfulness in composing text messages, reports, and other types of documents. Visual communication involves your ability to relay information using pictures and other visual aids. Active listening should also be considered a key communication skills because it helps you listen to and hear what others say. You need to be able to listen to understand how to best communicate with someone.
- Strategic Thinking: Understands business issues and opportunities and translates or aligns them to a vision, strategy and plans to chart a course of action.
- Teamwork: Collaborate with others to achieve common goals. Build strong, positive working relationships with supervisors and team members/coworkers. Exercise the ability to compromise and be adaptable.
- Problem-Solving / Critical Thinking: Ability to balance the needs of different people in a solution to a problem. Able to meet the needs of different constituents in the solution of a problem. Able to solve problems with multiple criteria that need to be met. Identifies and assesses all potential responses to a problem.
- Integrity / Work Ethic: Deal with Conflict Properly. Report on Unethical Behavior. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Be willing to do hard work. Take accountability for your actions. Be a team player. Respect others. Don’t abuse your power. Keep morale up.
- Interpersonal Skills: Interpersonal competencies help you interact, communicate, and collaborate with others effectively. Typical examples of interpersonal skills include empathy, active listening, and emotional intelligence
ABOUT MARKI MICROWAVE
Shattering Performance Barriers Since 1991.
At Marki Microwave our goal is to invent technologies to empower the RF and microwave industry to design faster, simplify production, eliminate complexity, and shatter performance barriers.
Marki Microwave is a privately-owned company based in Morgan Hill, California, 30 minutes from downtown San Jose in Southern Silicon Valley. We offer a full benefits package, including:
- Holiday pay
- Paid Time Off (4 weeks)
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401(k) ER matching
- College Loan Subsidy Program
Marki Microwave is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military or veteran status, or any other applicable federal, state or local protected classification.
