Staff NPI Engineer, PCBA
SPAN
AssemblyRay
Engineering Technician
Pacific Defense
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Support engineering development, troubleshooting, production support, and maintaining complex instrumentation to ensure reliability, configuration control, and specifications
- Use schematics, blueprints or sketches and verbal and written instructions to assemble, rework, or re-assemble units
- Hand solder components onto PCBs and perform rework (including 0201 size parts)
- Perform surface mount, fine pitch and through hole soldering
- Install connectors, substrates, components and modules in complex microwave assemblies, often utilizing paste and sheet epoxies
- Attach wires to load cell tabs by following schematics or wiring diagrams
- Write or modify a board level test procedure with guidance from design engineer
- Collect and organize RF characterization and test data, follow test procedures and instructions for completion of assigned tasks
- Clearly communicate status using established collaboration tools and coordinate across departments
- Follow standardized procedures and work with precision using miniaturized tools
- Organize information, job tasks, and manage time for efficient and "best value" performance
Requirements
- Candidate must be a US Citizen (Due to the classified nature of our work)
- Must be IPC Certified
- Experience with reading/interpreting drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), and complex assembly instructions to assemble PCBs
- Experience installing connectors, substrates, components and modules in highly complex microwave assemblies, often using paste and sheet epoxies
- Experience soldering both SMT and through-hole parts onto PCBs
- Ability to perform rework (including 0201 size parts) and PCB modifications as needed
- Perform surface mount, fine pitch and through hole soldering
- Ability to operate autonomously without direct engineering or management oversight
- Proven experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing as part of a cross-functional team
- Demonstrated experience in fast-paced iterative design environments with complex RF and high-speed digital processing electronic products and associated software and gateware
- Demonstrated experience with reviewing hardware designs to define test coverage
- Proven ability in communicating project status and updates across departments and disciplines
- Self-starter, with ability to work within teams or as an individual contributor
- Excellent communication (oral and written), collaboration, organizational, and prioritization skills
- Ability to read, understand, and apply schematics and assembly drawings
- Solder fine electronics on printed circuit cards, wires, and assemblies
- Develop and troubleshoot electronics systems from incomplete information
- Ability to work with miniaturized tools such as tweezers, fine screwdrivers and soldering irons
- Education: High School diploma or equivalent plus 6 years experience OR relevant 2-year technical degree plus 4 years experience, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
