Senior Supply Line Engineer – High-Speed Electronics

LitePoint; Agoura Hills (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradyne in the United States is seeking a Supply Line Engineer within our Supply Base Management Engineering team to support signal delivery assemblies for advanced test systems. You will help ensure complex electro-mechanical pathways meet performance, quality, cost, schedule, and manufacturability requirements from new product introduction through the full product lifecycle.

We value collaboration across design, operations, supplier quality, and commodity teams, with emphasis on supplier

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline.
• 8 to 15 years of experience in supplier engineering, product engineering, process development, or electronics manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of signal transmission theory and how materials, geometry, manufacturing variation, assembly methods, and process controls affect electrical performance.
• Experience with manufacturing methods used to attach coaxial wire to rigid printed circuit boards, flexible printed circuit boards, and high-frequency microwave connectors.
• Experience with supplier qualification, design for manufacturability, PFMEA, control plans, process capability, statistical process control, Gage R&R, and root cause and corrective action.

Responsibilities

• Partner early with design engineering to influence architecture, material selection, manufacturing methods, critical specifications, and supplier selection.
• Develop clear, manufacturable technical requirements, including key characteristics, drawings, inspection methods, test expectations, and qualification criteria.
• Assess and qualify suppliers through design-for-manufacturability reviews, process capability studies, measurement system analysis, pilot builds, audits, and production-readiness reviews.
• Establish supplier controls for tooling, inspection, testing, process flow, PFMEA, control plans, statistical process control, and quality gates.
• Collaborate across design, operations, supplier quality, commodity management, and supplier teams to identify risk, resolve quality issues, and improve yield, reliability, and process maturity.
• Support lifecycle readiness through approved vendor alignment, supplier change control, product change and end-of-life reviews, alternate sourcing, and continuity-of-supply planning.

Skills

Signal transmission theory

Manufacturing variation analysis

Root cause analysis

Supplier collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or related engineering

Tools

PFMEA

Control plans

Process capability

Gage R&R

Job description

Teradyne in the United States is seeking a Supply Line Engineer within our Supply Base Management Engineering team to support signal delivery assemblies for advanced test systems. You will help ensure complex electro-mechanical pathways meet performance, quality, cost, schedule, and manufacturability requirements from new product introduction through the full product lifecycle.

We value collaboration across design, operations, supplier quality, and commodity teams, with emphasis on supplier