Principal Mechanical Engineer
Job Responsibilities
1) Product Architecture & Physical Partitioning: 25%. Guide & review the new concepts and new opportunities before PIP1, together with the project teams. Leading the brainstorming and initial studies to identify possible ways of designing a low-cost high-performance product suitable for high volume manufacturing in early product design phase. Be constant attention on new technology, new materials, and new process craft of optical industry. Innovative ability, lead and implement the new study of the creative things, apply patents to keep Finisar in front of industry level in mechanical aspect.
2) Design & Implementation: 40%. Do design reviews in each of the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase from PIP0, PIP1, all the way to PIP4 and complete internal (Mechanical team) design reviews according to Mechanical Team Design Process prior to exit of each NPI phase. Guiding & review the product drawings at all phases of NPI and release product drawings to prototype or production lifecycle stage through ECO process. Communicate with Coherent IPO to identify suitable vendors and best manufacturing ways such as plastic injection molding, zinc or aluminum die casting, sheet metal stamping, etc. for manufacturing of products after finalizing design and completing design reviews.
3) Design Verification: 15%. Be responsible for qualifying piece parts, sub-assemblies and tooling for Alpha samples, Beta samples and productions by doing *** article inspection of critical dimensions and review *** article inspection reports from Finisar IQC departments and vendors. Do necessary engineering analysis, simulations and testing in all NPI phases to validate the designs. Leading and handling the mechanical test for design validation and failure analysis. Including dimension inspection, strength, stress and all other mechanical test, mechanical related optical test, and hardware test to figure out the root cause of failure samples.
4) Product Release:20%. Technique support for manufacturing plant to resolve the mechanical related questions in the production line, to make the mass building be in a good situation. 5) Additionally, eager to learn new technology, new materials, and new process craft in optical communication industry. Willingness to delve into this industry. Be good at innovative and creative thinking. Performance oriented and good at time management and resource allocation
