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Staff QA & Reliability Engineer

Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless

Quality Assurance
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Posted on Dec 20, 2024

Location: Neuchatel, Switzerland

Our Team:

Semtech’s Wireless Applications team is a group of passionate and talented engineers tasked to develop and deliver industry-leading IoT solutions for the LPWAN space. We enable our customers and partners to achieve a new standard of IoT product performance and we have a versatile and exceptionally talented team of individuals to make this vision a reality!

Job Summary:

The QA & Reliability Engineer will be responsible for the Reliability Testing of the LoRA WAN products and all of the Quality Assurance Activities associated supporting the LoRA Group [Neuchatel] and CAP Sensing Group [San Diego].

He/She must be a self-starter and comfortable managing engineering activities across global time zones. Manufacturing for the respective products is centralized in Asia, Malayasia & Taiwan. Customers are world wide.

Responsibilities:

  • Performing Reliability Testing for LoRA Products
    • Design of test HW
    • Design of Test SW
    • Running the Reliability Testing on site.
    • Co-ordinating with US Rel Lab to complete full reliability testing
  • Quality Assurance for local Business Unit:
    • Managing customer relations for the specific business group, including but not limited to:
      • Customer advocate within Semtech.
      • F2F Customer meetings.
      • F2F Supplier Meetings.
      • Facilitating customer audits.
    • Managing customer related Failure analysis cases for the LoRA Group and Cap Sensing Group
      • Includes interactive discussion with FA team, internal and external.
    • This includes as applicable writing requisite 8D reports for negative cases, includes FTA as applicable
      • Bench test debugging customer returns.
    • Customer Guarantee letters.
    • PLM support for LoRA & Cap Sense.
      • NCMR/MRB Review
      • AER/PPR dispositions.
      • Quality Assurance Communications to customers.
      • PCN/EOL/Quality Alerts for the respective Business Groups

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 4 year Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Advanced Degree preferred.
  • Experience with SW interfaces – Labview, Python, C, AutoCAD, Cadence, ADS, Altium, SPI, I2C, USB, GPIB, SCPI
  • Conversant with NPI Processes, Phase 1 through Phase 5 @ Semtech.
  • Product Engineering Experience with complex analogue, digital and data transmission systems and system modelling
  • Experience with reliability testing complex analogue, digital and data transmission systems
  • Experience with bench testing and debugging of complex analogue and digital data transmission systems.
  • Applications experience with complex analogue and digital data transmission systems.

Desired Qualifications

  • Detailed Failure analysis expertise – Physical Failure Analysis
  • SQE Experience a plus.
  • Design Engineering of complex analogue and digital data transmission systems a plus.

The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.