Electronics Process Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life‑saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

We are looking for an experienced Electronics Engineer to support printed circuit board (PCB) and printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturing within the aerospace industry. This role owns Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Test (DFT) activities from early design review through production release, serving as the technical bridge between engineering, quality, and outsourced manufacturing partners.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands‑on knowledge of electronics assembly processes and soldering technologies with a working command of industry inspection and workmanship standards, and is comfortable both authoring documentation and driving hands‑on manufacturing investigations on the shop floor.

• Establish and execute DFM, DFA, and DFT activities across new and existing PCBA designs, partnering with design engineering during early‑stage development to identify and resolve manufacturability, assembly, and testability risks before release to production.
• Review schematics, layouts, and bills of material against manufacturing capability and component/assembly requirements, providing design feedback and driving design‑for‑X change requests through to closure.
• Document and build the local knowledge set for PCB/PCBA manufacturing processes — including process standards, lessons learned, best practices, and failure modes — and keep it current as new processes, materials, and equipment are introduced.
• Act as a key technical resource for ongoing manufacturing process investigations, supporting root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) efforts for defects, yield excursions, and process non‑conformances.
• Establish detailed manufacturing and build requirements — including process specifications, workmanship criteria, and inspection/test requirements — for each new outsourced PCBA program, and communicate these requirements to contract manufacturers.
• Support supplier qualification and ongoing supplier performance reviews for outsourced PCB/PCBA manufacturing, including process audits and first‑article inspection support.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Design Engineering, Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturing requirements are reflected in drawings, specifications, and purchase documentation.
• Support new product introduction (NPI) builds, including process validation, first‑article inspection, and transition to full‑rate production.

• Demonstrated experience in PCB and PCBA manufacturing processes, gained in an aerospace, defense, or other high‑reliability electronics manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of electronics component and assembly requirements, including component packaging types, land pattern design, and assembly tolerances.
• Strong knowledge of machines and processes related to SMT reflow soldering,…