Senior Electrical Engineer - Operations

Key Responsibilities

Electrical Design Defect Resolution

• Lead technical investigation of recurring defects with suspected electrical or electronic design causes.
• Analyze schematics, PCB/CCA layouts, component specifications, circuit behavior, interfaces, tolerances, and test data to identify failure mechanisms.
• Determine whether failures originate from design, component, supplier, manufacturing, environmental, test, or system interactions.
• Identify design-margin, component-derating, signal-integrity, thermal, layout-sensitivity, and test-access issues that affect product quality and yield.
• Develop technically sound recommendations that improve product robustness, manufacturability, and testability.

Zero Defect Team Support

• Serve as the electrical engineering subject matter expert on the Recorders Zero Defect team alongside Product Quality, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering.
• Assess defect Paretos and production data to identify patterns that warrant electrical design investigation.
• Support investigation of defects across suppliers, incoming material, manufacturing, integration, calibration, test, and final acceptance.
• Contribute electrical design expertise to A3, RCCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, and PDCA problem-solving activities led by members of the Zero Defect team.
• Help the team distinguish symptoms from root causes and select corrective actions that prevent recurrence rather than rely on inspection, rework, or containment.

Corrective Action & Design Improvement

• Partner with Design Engineering to define, review, implement, and validate design-related corrective actions.
• Plan and support technical evaluations, experiments, and testing needed to confirm root-cause hypotheses.
• Assess the effectiveness of corrective actions using defect recurrence, RTY/FPY, retest, rework, and failure data.
• Provide design-informed recommendations for component changes, circuit improvements, layout updates, process controls, screening strategies, test conditions, and work instructions.
• Capture lessons learned and support application of improvements across related products and future designs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Business Impact

• Work closely with Design, Product Quality, Manufacturing, Test, Supply Chain, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex product issues.
• Translate complex electrical findings into clear technical conclusions, risks, and recommended actions for both technical and business stakeholders.
• Prioritize technical work based on safety, product risk, defect recurrence, yield, delivery, and cost impact.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost of poor quality through permanent elimination of recurring electrical and design-related defects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in electrical design, hardware engineering, sustaining engineering, product engineering, failure analysis, or a related electronics role.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting electronic assemblies, Circuit Card Assemblies, or complex electrical systems.
• Ability to interpret schematics, PCB layouts, component data sheets, design requirements, tolerance information, and test results.
• Experience investigating product failures, developing root-cause hypotheses, and validating corrective actions through analysis or testing.
• Working knowledge of structured problem-solving methods such as A3, RCCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, 8D, or PDCA.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Experience working in a regulated or high-reliability industry such as aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, or industrial electronics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with avionics, displays, recorders, surveillance systems, or other high-reliability electronic products.
• Practical CCA design experience, including schematic development or review, component selection, PCB layout review, design-margin analysis, or design verification.
• Experience supporting electronics in production, sustaining engineering, reliability engineering, or manufacturing failure analysis.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), and common electronics manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of IPC Class 3 workmanship expectations and AS9100-regulated environments.
• Familiarity with electronic failure mechanisms such as solder-joint reliability, thermal stress, component derating, intermittent connections, layout-induced sensitivity, tolerance stack-up, and test-induced failures.
• Exposure to Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, or formal Zero Defect operating systems.