Principal Engineer (PE)

Job Title: Principal Engineer 

Location: Syracuse, NY

Compensation range: $125-150k/yr

Employer/ Broad Description: SRC, LLC is currently seeking a highly seasoned and product development-oriented principal engineer to join their Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) team. Individuals who are passionate about ensuring products are developed and transitioned to manufacturing with a high degree of producibility best suited for this role. This position is eligible for a Sign on Bonus based on experience and skill level.

Responsibilities:

• Apply advanced knowledge of engineering principles and concepts to the broad categories of product design, manufacturing, manufacturing test development, and validation/qualification challenges.
• Collaborate with product teams early in the development cycle to understand design intent and direction, and to ensure high levels of DFX are achieved, with an emphasis on DFT.
• Partner with R&D engineers to drive rigor in deriving appropriate and thorough manufacturing & manufacturing test requirements, and to ensure that production systems are aligned with the capability of the product.
• Architect test capabilities and systems based on an existing, common SRCTec platform while developing customized features and interfaces.
• Provide direct support to factory and sustaining personnel during new product transitions to volume manufacturing.
• Participate in multiple product manufacturing development efforts simultaneously and partner with various functional resources as required.
• Coach and mentor junior test engineers and less experienced staff in effective manufacturing and manufacturing test design practices and concepts.
• Support AME initiatives with wide business impact and help proliferate best practices across the entire SRC enterprise.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field with 12+ years of related experience.
• Display strong interpersonal and communication skills with a collaborative, professional demeanor while interfacing with all levels of the enterprise.
• Maintain flexibility and stability in a constantly changing technical environment.
• Apply methodical and analytical problem-solving skills to challenging manufacturing and manufacturing test issues.
• Utilize skills in project management to ensure timely and complete execution of production development efforts.

Preferred Skills

• Subject matter expertise in DFX principles as part of new product development efforts and production transition initiatives, with an emphasis on DFT.
• Ability to translate fully or partially defined system requirements into robust manufacturing and manufacturing test solutions, in some cases where no precedent exists.
• Adept at collaborating with product development teams and promoting DFX principles to new product design efforts.
• Experience with printed circuit card assembly (PCA) thru system level functional test development (and everything in between).
• Hands-on experience working with sensitive RF measurements and high-speed digital systems.
• Competent in LabVIEW and TestStand development environments.
• Exposure to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches to product development.