Sr. Hardware Failure Analysis Technician - Judge Group

Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: $50.00 USD Hourly - $55.00 USD Hourly
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Sr. Hardware Failure Analysis Technician
This position will be onsite in Oakland, CA

This job will have the following responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on triage to reproduce reported issues on all field returns and coordinate further FA with relevant engineering team 
• Share Failure Analysis findings with cross functional teams to drive containment and corrective action implementation into production, design, firmware 
• Coordinate and execute Failure Analysis test plans for special capture FA projects and EFFA programs 
• Document detailed FA steps and findings identifying root cause 
• Seek alignment with cross-functional team and prioritize based on severity, incidence, and impact of each failure mode 
• Provide feedback in issue reviews to determine next steps and ensure product performance, manufacturing and design issues are identified and risks mitigated 
• Summarize warranty trends and findings in regular reports for cross-functional distribution as part of overall objective of implementing learnings from previous field issues into the next gen design
  

Qualifications & Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in consumer electronics within a quality engineering or technician role 
• Thorough understanding of how to identify and root cause common mechanical and electrical failures in consumer electronics 
•  Strong organizational skills and excited to work through complex issues that may not have an established process 
•  Comfort handling sensitive electronic components
•  Strong desire to establish good working relationships within cross-functional teams 
• Views every failure as an opportunity to enhance our products 
•  Experience using hardware lab equipment (optical microscope, multimeter, etc) 
•  [Bonus] Familiarity with: Snowflake, Jira, Looker, Solidworks, Altium 
•  Bonus] Can read electrical schematics Keywords for recruiters Directly relevant: Failure Analysis, Field Failure, Product Quality, Six Sigma, Root cause analysis, Secondary: IQC, OQC, IPQC, CET, PQM, JMP software, SQL, Jir

Contact: pmahoney@judge.com