Design Assurance Engineer, Professional II

Overview

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges. Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose.

Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve. You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward‑thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally. Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

• Working as part of a design team, providing all design assurance deliverables required in the development process at each phase with high‑level coaching.
• Evaluation of the materials, properties, and techniques used in production of Zebra’s devices or solutions.
• Advising design engineering on the selection, application, and test of mechanical and/or electronic components and systems.
• Evaluating design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Determining reliability requirements of components and systems to achieve company, customer, and any governmental agency reliability objectives.
• Using statistical methods to design reliability and verification test plans.
• Participating in creation and analysis of qualification test plans and results.
• Creating and analyzing designed experiments to determine main effects of low‑complexity device sub‑systems to improve designs.
• Using hypothesis testing and other statistical methods to assess the significance of test results.
• Actively reviewing, understanding, and applying the Market Requirements Document and Engineering Specifications to quantify metrics and acceptance thresholds.
• May be responsible for managing quality and reliability sub‑team activities to support the initiatives of the core development team, program manager, or product line management deliverables.
• Communicating proactively with the project team and other stakeholders about progress against qualification testing and reliability analysis and results, and proactively tracking metrics for the product prior to and following alpha release.
• Level 2 roles typically focus on a subset of products/devices in Zebra’s portfolio.
• Typically supports multiple derivative new product or sustaining projects simultaneously.
• With input/oversight from a senior engineer or member of management, may make recommendations for changes in the selection and application of components and systems to drive improved reliability.
• Demonstrates familiarity with performing design for quality tasks, design failure mode effects analysis, inspection fixture and measurement systems, manufacturing validation test, build qualification, and corrective action of results to the appropriate core team discipline lead.
• Actively participates in program risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Assists project team in understanding technical issues and approaches to determining root cause and corrective action.
• Escalates novel issues or concerns about design approach and conformance to standards to a senior level engineer or manager for assistance.
• Analyzes and approves engineering changes to production products.
• Contributes to innovation efforts by participating actively in brainstorming activities and benchmarking externally with other organizations on best practices in design assurance.
• Provides product qualification or reliability test support over the life‑cycle of the product to support cost‑saving initiatives, end‑of‑life part re‑qualifications, second‑source re‑qualifications, or critical design improvements due to field performance or customer escalations.

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering field (Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering).

• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in Hardware Engineering and/or Electronics…