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Our optical and photonic solutions power everything from AI and cloud computing to data centers, telecom, and advanced manufacturing.\nWe’re a global team of innovators working where light meets technology, solving big challenges that keep the world connected and moving forward. If shaping the future of connectivity excites you, you’ll fit right in.\nWhy You’ll Love This Role\nThe Electronics Component Engineer is responsible for the technical selection, qualification, approval, lifecycle management, and reliability oversight of electronic components used in company products. The position works closely with R&D, Supplier Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing, Compliance, and suppliers to ensure that components meet performance, quality, reliability, availability, regulatory, and long-term product-life requirements.\nKey Responsibilities\nAct as the liaison between Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Sourcing to ensure manufacturable, reliable, and supply-secure product designs.\nDefine and maintain component requirements, specifications, qualification standards, and approved vendor lists, including support for long-life products designed for 15+ years of continuous operation.\nProvide component-selection guidance during NPI and design activities, considering reliability, manufacturability, lifecycle, supplier capability, capacity, quality history, and supply-chain risks.\nReview BOMs for obsolescence, sole-source exposure, lifecycle status, geopolitical risks, and supply continuity; identify, evaluate, and qualify alternate or replacement components.\nReview and approve PCNs, SPCNs, EOL notices, last-time-buy proposals, manufacturer changes, and related CCR/CCB/ECO/MCO documentation.\nMaintain accurate component data, including manufacturer part numbers, lifecycle status, country of origin, MSL, RoHS/REACH compliance, and approved sources.\nCollect and assess supplier reliability, FIT/MTBF, MSL, and field-failure data; support failure analysis, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and supplier escalations.\nParticipate in supplier audits, technical reviews, and change-management activities.\nEstablish controls for counterfeit, broker-sourced, and non-franchised components to protect quality, reliability, and traceability.\nMonitor component manufacturers, manufacturing locations, process changes, capacity constraints, and geopolitical and supply-chain risks.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nFive or more years of experience with electronic components, component engineering, supplier quality, hardware engineering, or electronics manufacturing.\nStrong knowledge of electronic components, including:Resistors, capacitors, inductors, ferrite beads, and thermistors\nDiodes, MOSFETs, analog and digital ICs\nMicrocontrollers, processors, FPGAs, memory, and power-management devices\nCrystals, oscillators, connectors, relays, and power supplies\n\nExperience interpreting component datasheets, drawings, specifications, application notes, and qualification reports.\nExperience with component qualification and reliability testing.\nWorking knowledge of industry standards such as IEC, JEDEC, AEC-Q, ASTM, IPC, RoHS, REACH, and MSL requirements.\nExperience reviewing PCNs, EOL notices, datasheet changes, manufacturing-site changes, and supplier corrective actions.\nAbility to perform technical risk assessments and make clear component approval or rejection recommendations.\nKnowledge of electrical, mechanical, environmental, and reliability failure modes.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and technical writing skills.\nAbility to communicate effectively with suppliers, design engineers, procurement, manufacturing, and management.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with telecom, datacom, optical networking, aerospace, medical, automotive, or other high-reliability products.\nExperience supporting products with long operating-life requirements.\nExperience with BOM management, PLM, ERP, lifecycle-management, or component intelligence tools.\nFamiliarity with Agile, Accuris, SiliconExpert, Arena, Windchill, or similar systems.\nExperience with supplier audits and global component manufacturers.\nKnowledge of sulfur resistance, corrosion, contamination, tin whiskers, solderability, delamination, cracking, electromigration, and other electronics reliability risks.\nExperience with accelerated life testing, high-temperature testing, humidity testing, temperature cycling, HALT/HASS, and failure analysis.\nFamiliarity with semiconductor process technologies, package construction, die revisions, and manufacturing-site transfers.\nExperience qualifying alternates and drop-in replacements.\nKnowledge of counterfeit-part prevention and broker-source controls.\nExperience with engineering change processes, AVL/AML management, CCRs, MCOs, ECOs, and risk buys.\nPay Range:\nP60-USA-1 :$112,050.00 - $160,050.00Disclaimer:\nFinal base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. 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