Entry Product Engineer
The Entry Product Engineer at Confidential Client supports the imaging and printing business by ensuring product quality through monitoring complex manufacturing processes involving diverse materials and technologies. This role involves partnering with R&D and manufacturing teams to develop quality systems, drive new product introduction activities, perform root cause analysis, and support cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality products that meet customer requirements.
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Summary
Confidential Client is hiring an Entry Product Engineer to support New Product Introduction (NPI) and product quality for printing and imaging products. This role focuses on product-to-process integration, test and qualification, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure products meet customer quality requirements.
What You’ll Do
You will work across product, manufacturing, and supply-chain teams to help bring new products to high-volume production and maintain released product quality.
- Understand customer (product) and manufacturing (process) requirements and partner with R&D to define quality targets.
- Develop and characterize quality systems and test methods; use DOE and characterization data to refine product and process specifications.
- Support NPI transfer to high-volume manufacturing partners, including collaboration with Southeast Asia high-volume counterparts.
- Manage qualification of changes to released products and triage prototype and production parts to determine causes of failure.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions when issues occur in prototype or production.
- Lead and support product investigations and escalations with cross-functional teams.
- Work with IT and data teams to ensure part-tracking and data connectivity across factories; retrieve critical process and product data using scripting tools.
- Assist equipment/tooling design teams, product engineering, and printer teams as needed.
- Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles and support development effectiveness to reduce launch risk.
- Partner with process and supply chain colleagues to complete margin and stability studies; document and communicate findings clearly.
- Capture critical knowledge and support knowledge transfer activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Materials Engineering.
- 0–2 years of experience in product engineering or related engineering activities (systems interactions, writing systems engineering).
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence decisions focused on customer quality.
- Strong organization, documentation, and communication skills.
Desirable skills
- Solid understanding of physics and core engineering materials.
- Experience contributing in fast-paced R&D or industrial environments.
- Experience with DOE (Design of Experiments) and test-method development.
- Familiarity with DFM and qualification processes.
- Experience with CREO 3D/2D or similar CAD tools.
- Basic scripting skills for data retrieval and analysis (for example: Python, SQL, or similar).
Compensation & Benefits
The pay range for this role is $65,600 to $101,000 USD annually (United States candidates). Additional compensation may be available in the form of bonus and/or equity. Pay varies by work location, skills, and experience.
Confidential Client’s benefits package includes:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life insurance and employee assistance programs
- Flexible spending account options
- Generous time-off policies, including paid parental leave and paid holidays
- Additional paid vacation and sick leave
(The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the posting date and may be updated in accordance with applicable law.)
Logistics
- Location: Corvallis, OR (on-site)
- Employment type: Full time
- Shift: Shift 1 (standard hours)
- Travel: As required by role
- Relocation: Not specified
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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