R&T Leader - Internal Cables & Connectors (Harrisburg, PA, US, 17057)

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Job Overview

As a member of the Digital Data Networks (DDN) business in TE Connectivity you will play a key role in the design of products for high-speed products in the connector, cable assembly, and/or radio system industry—targeting high-speed communications and connectivity within datacenters and wireless infrastructure.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Internal Cables & Connectors Reliability & Testing (R&T) Leader will lead a dedicated team of R&T engineers and will have responsibility for driving standardized Design for Reliability Engineering (DfRE) and Robustness Validation (RV) Methodologies for all Internal Cable & Connectors Products in the DDN Portfolio. He/she and their team will work extremely closely with customers, Product Development Engineering (PDE) teams, Manufacturing Process Development Engineering (MPDE) teams, Field Application Engineering (FAE) and Advanced Quality Engineering (AQE) to deeply understand the end application requirements and the associated “mission profile”. They will partner with the Global R&T COE to drive the application of standardized methodologies and alignment on all Reliability Testing and Test & Validation plans for each of the assigned new product development programs. They will identify unique product line test needs and application testing requirements and work with the R&T COE to develop custom Test System & Software as required to support the unique testing requirements for each product line. In addition, he/she will also partner with the Global R&T COE to co-develop Reliability Test Plans and Test & Validation Plans aligned with TE’s LeanPD stage gate approach for product development.

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader will oversee integrating reliability considerations during technology & product evaluation, NPI product development from receipt of Customer Spec (“mission profile”) through Product Release into mass production. DfRE Experts in the Global R&T COE will help determine the appropriate test strategy to collect data using destructive Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) or Highly Accelerated Stress Tests (HAST) techniques to evaluate product reliability. Based on collected data and in close collaboration with PDE teams, they will identify weak design/process features or components and work closely with PDE and AQE on the development of corrective actions and improvement plans, engaging with material and component experts to evaluate improvements of the corrective actions by technics such a stress/accelerated screening.

Role Responsibilities

ENGINEERS ON INTERNAL CABLE & CONNECTORS R&T TEAM WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Integrate reliability considerations during technology & product evaluation, NPI product development from receipt of Customer Spec (Mission Profile) through Product Release into mass production.
• Contribute towards requirement engineering. Understand the load requirements clearly to derive inner load and stresses.
• Drive reliability planning tailored to environmental and use conditions, integrating contingency planning and business impact.
• Analysis of test data. knowledge on data acquisition methods and system.
• Apply accelerated test models and test-to-failure strategies to determine reliability limits and identify failure modes.
• Perform the initial FIT estimation based on data from standards such as Siemens Norm SN-29500. Calculate final FIT value based on test data.
• Analyze customer requirements, application requirements and mission profile to determine the optimal validation test to evaluate reliability of DDN products.
• Design and develop detailed Test & Validation (T&V) Plans for Early Validation Testing (EVT), Design Validation Testing (DVT) and Process Validation Testing (PVT); coordinate all Validation Testing internally or externally, publish valid