# PCBA Manufacturing Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000-$175,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4338015006
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e8788adc-06e

## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- PCB/PCBA fabrication facility
- Supplier quality, manufacturing, or design experience
- Board assembly process and equipment
- DFX reviews
- PLM and DFX systems
- IPC standards for PCB, PCBA, and RFPC fabrication, assembly, and test