Sr. Engineer- EE - Value Engineering/Competitive Teardown

Job Description :

- Execute competitor product teardown activities understand the overall functionalities and capabilities of the competitor products across a Broad spectrum of Industries and technologies.

- Perform teardowns to cover Product Assembly & Dis-assembly sequence, Bill of Material (BoM) listing, Schematic extraction, specifications, functional block diagrams, Material Analysis & BoM cost

- Analyze schematic designs, identifying circuit level interfaces, critical components and generate BOM

- Identifying Unique Hardware, design features, topologies, technology and any special manufacturing techniques employed.

- Analyze electro mechanical parts and capture construction details & interface schemes deployed

- Identify the Novel and unique design aspects related to Performance, Thermal, Reliability, DFX, User Experience, EMI/EMC and product packaging that contribute to lower costs and higher manufacturing throughput.

- Perform functional analysis, capture logical relationships and cost to worth gap analysis

- Create a Test set-up to test / evaluate the competitor product, Identify the test cases/performance evaluation criteria.

- Generate quick PoCs, Simulations for proposed Ideas

- Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure smooth delivery of CB Benchmarking Projects

- Do a detailed competitor product benchmark with HON product

- Propose economic alternatives for HON design and suggest trade-offs.

- Recommend product improvements to enable technology leadership

- Generate the Learning Opportunities/findings from every CB teardown.

- Identify good features/engineering observations of the competitor product (wrt use & purpose of the product) covering aspects of design, specifications, HUE, feature/functionality/performance, supply chain etc that can be considered for HON products

- Contribute to the development & continuous upgrade the CB portal

- Contribution to talent identification & developing technical capabilities within the team.

- Collaborates with cross functional teams to ensure smooth delivery of CB Projects

Preferred Skills :

- Experience in Embedded product design and development

- Experience in NPI Product Design life cycle environment and processes

- Knowledge of Electronic Semiconductor devices, Components and Test Systems

- Exposure to a Wide breadth of Hardware technologies ranging from Power, Analog, Memories, Communication protocols & Interfaces, Sensors, Digital, RF and Processor based designs.

- Exposure to product reliability, thermal management and certifications

- Good knowledge in PCB fabrication, assembly and manufacturing process

- Experience in using simulation tools like Mentor graphics/Pspice

- Exposure to using Value engineering methodologies like FAST and TRIZ techniques

Basic Qualifications :

- BE/BTech/ME/MTech - EEE (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) or Instrumentation

- 5 - 10 Years of professional experience in Hardware design and development

- Should have executed NPI programs of electrical & electronic products from "Concept to Launch to After-Sales support".

- Should have been involved in design reviews/evaluation of electrical & electronic products.

- Exposure to mechanical products is desirable.

- Strong understanding & working experience in Microcontroller/Microprocessor based Product Design, Sensors, Analog and digital circuit designing, PCB designing, EMI EMC testing and troubleshooting and performing PSPICE simulations.

- Knowledge of communication protocols, interfaces & RF/Wireless systems

- Knowledge of Testing life cycles, testing strategies, testing tools & test system designs (test rigs)

- Proven practical experience in the Analysis / Troubleshooting of electrical/electronic products

- Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills

- Initiative, Problem solving, Persuasive & positive thinking

Misc. requirements :

- PCB design and manufacturing knowledge

- Product design and System Engineering experience

- Knowledge of communication interfaces, testing strategies, testing tools & test system designs

- Proven practical experience in the Analysis / Troubleshooting of electrical/electronic products

- Good presentation skills and strong verbal and written Communication.

- Team player with good interpersonal skills

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