Reliability and Test Engineering Manager

Position Summary:
Reliability and Test Engineering Manager

Location:
Valley Green, PA

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. We are currently seeking an experienced Reliability and Test Engineering Manager to join our Product Development team.

The position will be located in Valley Green, PA.

As the Reliability and Test Engineering Manager you will provide the lead in supporting the development and validation of new products through testing and analysis of data and designs.

• Define and own reliability requirements and strategies for cable assemblies used in AI hardware systems, including rack-level and system-level interconnects
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• Establish mission profiles covering temperature, airflow, vibration, handling, insertion/removal cycles, bend radius, and field service conditions.
• Translate AI infrastructure requirements into quantified reliability targets (life, confidence, environmental margins, electrical performance over time).

• Partner with cable and connector design teams to influence:
  • High-speed signal integrity over life (insertion loss, return loss, crosstalk, skew, BER degradation)
  • Mechanical robustness (strain relief, jacket materials, crimp integrity, retention features)
  • Connector interfaces (fretting corrosion, plating wear, contact normal force, mating durability)
  • Thermal and airflow interactions in dense AI racks
• Drive design decisions that mitigate failure mechanisms such as:
  • Micro-motion-induced intermitten ts
  • Conductor and shield fatigue
  • Connector contact wear and oxidation.
  • Jacket cracking, creep, or abrasion
• Review designs for compliance with derating, material compatibility, and manufacturability best practices.

• Develop and execute reliability and qualification test plans specific to AI-scale cable assemblies, including:
  • Thermal cycling and thermal aging
  • Temperature/humidity bias (THB)
  • Vibration and mechanical shock
  • Flex, bend, torsion, and pull testing
  • Connector mating/unmating durability
  • Accelerated life testing (ALT) with combined stresses
• Define electrical performance monitoring during stress
  , including:
  • Insertion loss and impedance drift
  • Eye diagrams and BER under stress
  • Intermittent detection during vibration and thermal cycling
• Lead or support HALT characterization to understand design margins and dominant failure mechanisms.

• Lead complex electrical‑mechanical failure analysis for cable assemblies, including:
  • Intermittent opens and shorts
  • Signal degradation over life
  • Connector fretting, corrosion, or plating wear
  • Crimp, weld, or termination failures.
• Apply structured root cause methods (8D, 5‑Why, Fishbone) supported by:
  • Electrical probing and TDR
  • X‑ray and micro sectioning
  • Optical and SEM analysis (as applicable)
• Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and verify effectiveness through retesting.

• Build life and reliability models (Weibull, Arrhenius, Coffin‑Manson, Miner’s rule) appropriate for cable and connector failure mechanisms.
• Correlate accelerated test results with field data to validate models and confidence levels.
• Analyze FRACAS, RMA, and deployment data to identify systemic risks across large-scale AI infrastructure.

• Partner with manufacturing teams to define process controls, screening, and ESS strategies for cable assemblies.
• Work directly with cable and connector suppliers to:
  • Review materials, processes, and reliability data.
  • Audit manufacturing controls.
  • Resolve field and production issues.
• Assess reliability impact of ECO/ECN changes
  , including materials, suppliers, tooling, or process shifts.

• Author reliability reports, qualification summaries, and launch readiness documentation suitable for executive and customer review.
• Mentor junior engineers and…