Cricut is seeking an experienced and versatile Early Career Hardware Test Engineer to join our Hardware Quality Engineering team. You will be responsible to formulating test strategies, designing and developing test plans for new & existing products based on product requirements, engineering specifications and potential customer use cases.
Job Responsibilities:
As an Early Career Hardware Test Engineer, we expect the successful candidate to be able to perform the following with some oversight and direction, demonstrate solid learning ability, improvement and work-ethic, and have enough experience to work with and contribute meaningfully to the success of the team through learning and delivering appropriate tasks collectively and independently.
- Analyzing materials and data, conducting tests, troubleshooting, monitoring performance, ensuring quality control and creating documentation during product development stages
- Working with others to develop new methods of testing
- Helping to guide and train technicians and lab workers and assist with directing testing
- Maintaining inventories and ordering test supplies and maintaining lab test equipment
- Work to learn and stay up to date on industry standards and new developments in the field
- Help conduct root-cause analysis through Eight Disciplines (8D), etc. to drive corrective & preventive actions (CAPA) through all stages of the product lifecycle
- Work to develop test plans for: thermal, humidity, vibration, shock, drop/tumble, HALT/HASS, accelerated aging, etc. which will aid in new product qualification
- Learn and utilize quality engineering tools and techniques such as, gage R&R, SPC, DOE, design for reliability to continuously improve and enhance product reliability.
- Communicate and present defect, failure, risk, and opportunity data to cross functional teams
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to validate manufacturing lines and lead continuous improvement initiatives
- Analyze and recommend product’s readiness at EVT, DVT, MPQ and MP gates
- Develop increasing ability to work independently and with cross functional teams globally to develop and deliver Product Risk Analysis (DFMEA, PFMEA, NUDD and Lessons Learned) to ensure high risk items are addressed prior to validating the final design.
Required Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical, Material Science or Electrical Engineering
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills with spoken and written English
- Self-starter, capable of working independently while making sound technical/business judgments and building strong cross functional relationships
- Some experience with engineering drawings
- Willingness and ability to commute to and work in our South Jordan, Utah office Monday through Friday each week is required.
Preferred:
- Solid understanding of assembly processes
- Some practical experience with thermodynamics
- Some practical experience with circuit boards and electronics
- Knowledgeable in production control processes, data analysis six sigma tools such as GR&R, Cp/Cpk, SPC, DOE and correlation analysis.
- Experience with any of the following: mechanical parts, gears, castings, plastic parts, injection molding, tooling, jigs, fixtures, or automotive high-volume quality manufacturing engineering
- Working knowledge of UL/ASTM/ISO testing and standards.
- Experience with process and design failure mode effects analysis (DFMEA and PFMEA)
- Experience conducting IPQC, first-article inspections (FAI), site audits at contract manufacturers and suppliers
- Experience with Minitab or other statistical analysis software
- Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Experience with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Experience with GD&T and CAD software
- Experience with infrared thermography
- ASQ Certification
- Project management and people management
- Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
What to Do Next:
To receive priority consideration for this role, please adhere to the following:
- Please attach your resume including links to your portfolio where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways – include that information too!
- Please ensure your resume clearly indicates where you currently live. It is very helpful to us if you manually enter your city/state in the application when applying.
- If you live outside of the Salt Lake City area, clearly indicate through the screening question or in your cover letter or resume that you will immediately relocate to Salt Lake City if offered this position.
- Including your valid LinkedIn profile URL in the application fields is also greatly appreciated!
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Candidates who currently reside outside of the United States, are not willing to immediately relocate to and work in our Salt Lake City offices 3-5 work days each week, or who are working on a visa which requires us to hire you through a 3rd party company will not be considered.
- Candidates whose application materials clearly show the above required qualifications, location and in-office requirements as well as one or more of the preferred (good to have) skills will be given priority consideration compared to those whose application materials are difficult to read, missing information or whose answers are vague, unclear or confusing.
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Candidates who currently reside outside of the United States, are not willing to immediately relocate to and work in our Salt Lake City offices 3-5 work days each week, or who are working on a visa which requires us to hire you through a 3rd party company will not be considered. To prioritize those candidates who took the time to apply correctly, we reserve the right to choose not to notify or inform candidates who apply and who are outside of these criteria if they are being considered or not.
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