PCBA Manufacturing Engineer

As a PCBA Manufacturing Engineer at Astranis, you will work across design engineering, supply-chain, quality, and our manufacturing partners to drive PCBA manufacturing with on-time delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining manufacturing readiness requirements and leading key milestone reviews to ensure all stakeholder deliverables are complete.
• Working with the Design Engineering team to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges early in product development by enforcing DFM, DFA, and DFS principles.
• Driving closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds.
• Investigating failures in production, test, and integration. Identifying and mitigating underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence and foster continuous improvement.
• Delivering manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability, quality controls, materials characterization, and workmanship standards.
• Actively monitoring the success of products and processes through the production ramp.
• Providing direction to contract manufacturing, suppliers, and engineers to manage quarantine and rework activities.

Requirements include:

• A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in PCB/PCBA fabrication facility.
• 3+ years of supplier quality, manufacturing, or design experience.
• Experience in board assembly process and equipment (e.g., stencil print, SPI, pick & place, reflow, AOI, ICT, x-ray inspection).
• Experience leading DFX reviews to deliver design to manufacturability, testability, quality, and reliability standards.

Bonus requirements include:

• A master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience in PCBA/PCB supply chain, manufacturing, or engineering.
• 5+ years' experience with industry-standard PLM and DFX systems, Mentor/Valor preferred.
• Experience performing Design and Process Failure Modes and Effects Analyses.
• Experience with IPC standards for PCB, PCBA, and RFPC fabrication, assembly, and test.
• Experience in polymeric application, including conformal coating, staking, and underfill.