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WHY WE NEED YOU

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• As stated, the Component Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and/or creating BOM(s) for circuit board level components
• Interact with Engineers, mechanical, quality, system, ECAD, buyers, component suppliers, distributers, and contract manufacturers
• Work with Electrical Design Engineer Teams to select components based on performance, reliability, availability, cost, environmental and manufacturing requirements
• Responsible for sourcing and interact with vendors to ensure delivery of components by need by dates of PCBAs
• Work with Facilities/QA to ensure parts are properly received and inventoried, including standing up working long term solution
• Ensure BOMs or equivalent tracking measures are done and up to date against current needs
• Review and approve component specifications from suppliers
• Familiar with Altium Designer, ideally capable of adding components to library PCB footprints and schematic symbols
• Participate in root cause analysis with design and/or quality Engineers
• Lead effort and/or Interact with buyers and Engineers to find alternate parts
• Work in lab to investigate component failures.

WHAT YOU'VE DONE

• Minimum BS Degree in Engineering
• 4+ years’ experience as Electrical Engineer (Design) with component engineer practices or Component Engineer
• Experience with mid to high level complexity embedded solutions
• Thorough functional understanding of all component types including passives (resistors, capacitors, magnetics), actives (transistors, diodes), and integrated circuits
• 4+ years’ experience in PCB assembly manufacturing
• Intensive knowledge of PCB fabrication and failure modes
• Understanding of conformal coat, staking and bonding processes used on PCB assemblies
• Detailed understanding of AEC-Q, RoHS and IPC and other such standards/requirements
• Enjoy collaborating with many different team members
• Ability to thrive in a tight deadline driven development environment
• Experience using microscope, milli-Ohm meter, LCR meter, x-ray, die penetrant, C-SAM, curve tracing a plus

WHY VIRGIN HYPERLOOP

• Our Benefits: medical (including infertility & mental health), dental, vision, life, FSA, HSA, 401k, and more 
• Your Wellbeing: flexible work schedules, unlimited PTO, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave