Product PCA Engineer

Keysight Technologies; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Product Owner for Printed Circuit Assemblies (PCA). You will drive NPI projects, improve manufacturability, validate prototypes, and oversee transition to mass production while ensuring quality and reliability.

Responsibilities include board testing, debugging, design optimization, and collaboration with procurement and engineering teams to meet cost targets and schedule commitments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in analog/digital circuit design and layout.
• Strong debugging and test program skills for PCBs.
• Experience with FPGA, datasheets, and schematics interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Lead PCA NPIs and mass production transitions to meet cost and reliability goals.
• Maintain PCA production with EOL parts and resolve shortages.
• Collaborate to test, debug, and validate new boards/products.
• Create technical documentation and guide third-party vendors.

Skills

Analog and digital circuit design

Schematic and PCB layout

Test and firmware debugging

Data analysis and troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BSEE or equivalent

MS/PhD beneficial

Tools

Mentor Graphics

FPGA knowledge (Intel/Series)

PCB design tools

Job description

Overview

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~16,800 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.

Our award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Responsibilities

• Product owner of Printed Circuit Assemblies (PCA) to participates actively in new product introduction and continuous product enhancement project, including influencing/improve the design of the product to ensure manufacturability and conformance with the global supply chain, enabling prototyping during first turn on, testing/validate the reliability of prototypes performance, quality, and reliability of PCA level as well as managing the transition into Mass production.
• Maintain the PCA production with replace EOL parts and resolve material shortage issues from line down issue;
• Collaborate with team to test and debug the new board/product;
• Determines and develops effective approaches to solve PCA technical issues.
• Improves PCA products, processes, and components to meet agreed-upon product performance objectives.
• Redesign PCA products or LLM components to meet cost objectives, component technology obsolescence and customer requirements.
• Supports and implements the transition of PCA products and manufacturing processes from prototype to full production and stabilize/improve the PCA level quality/reliability issue sustaining period of NPI/CPE project.
• Create technical documentation.
• Partners with procurement and technical services to improve the PCA products and processes.
• Review/Evaluate and participate in setting production line specifications based on statistical data analysis.
• Perform PCA troubleshooting, repairing and provide disposition in situation of excessive failure during NPI stage or during escalation.Direct the work of third-party vendors and/or partners to meet contract specified deliverables, performance, or business objectives.Work with suppliers to ensure achievement of goals for PCA cost, quality and delivery of parts and materials.Identify and manage PCA ERP data such as bill of material and routing.Supports quality team and partners for customer feedback on out-of-box defects. Perform investigation and failure analysis on defective return.
• Manage and guide the transition of products and manufacturing processes into production and through the entire life cycle of the product.

Other manufacturing Engineering duties expected of this position include process documentation, managing engineering change orders, resolving internal and external quality issues, support quality system and ISO standards audits.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BSEE with 8+ years or MSEE/PHD with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency in analog and digital circuits design (e.g. op-amp, ADC/DAC, power management, FPGA, SRAM/DDR, etc.)
• Demonstrated Experience in schematic and PCB layout design
• Strong experience in reading and understanding electrical schematics, technical drawings, datasheets, and written work instructions
• Demonstrated experience in reading & understand test program and firmware coding.
• Good organizational skills and the desire to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment
• Background in hands-on debug and validation experience in a lab environment
• Self-motivated and able to take direction on high-level objectives and create/execute project plans
• Demonstrated analytical problem-solving skills and communication skills
• Knowledge and skill set of analog/digital circuit design, FPGA application and ASIC.
• This job requires hands-on troubleshooting and diagnostic skills as well as some experimental design/setup data collection and analysis to meet the clear objective & time bound requirement.
• Accountable, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be detail-oriented and ability to connect the dots in a dynamic environment.
• Must be able to be effectively communicate & present with all levels and cross functional team.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of general data communication interfaces and protocols (UART, USB, I2C, SPI, JTAG, PCIe, tcp/ip, etc.)
• Knowledge of Analog and Digital measurement techniques
• Experience with electronic test and measurement equipment
• Experience of design with Intel FPGA (e.g. Cyclone V SoC) and Xilinx FPGA (Series 7) would be an advantage
• Experience with Mentor or similar CAD design tools including schematic capture and PCB layout
• Understanding of hardware, firmware, and software/hardware interactions is highly desired

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