Basic Function and Scope of the Position:
The Sr. Product Development Engineer is part of the Illumina engineering team creating new industry-leading genetic analysis platforms for life sciences and clinical markets. In this position you will support the definition and development of new consumable products to support Illumina’s industry leading genetic applications. The job includes contributing to cross-functional teams as well as evaluating new technologies, materials, and vendor partners to meet performance, reliability, yield, and cost objectives of product development.
Tasks and Responsibilities: - Contribute to development cycles of new consumable products, including assembly architecture, process definition, process development, equipment specification and prototyping, materials selections and metrology development.
- Define product-level specifications and requirements, and translate them to critical parameter management at physical level in the process.
- Implement model systems to reduce cycle of learning time of process development
- Work with equipment vendors and contract manufacturers on requirements management, specification control, and prototyping of novel process workflows
- Work with cross-functional teams to scale prototype processes to pilot and production scale
- Define and implement process controls, in-line monitoring, and metrology for QA
- Deep dive on failure analysis and lead both short term containment and permanent solutions
- Data analysis of trends in yield and performance tied to process work flow; provide guidance on yield improvement and cost reduction over time
- Mentor others in the related areas of process work flow
Preferred Experiential & Educational Background:
- At least 5 years experience in consumables development.
- Familiarity with design and development of complex integrated devices (Microfluidic, Microelectronic, MEMS, etc) a plus.
- Experience with the development and ramp to production of novel manufacturing processes.
- Familiarity with a range of device assembly manufacturing techniques with a particular attention to mechanical assembly, plastic joining techniques, and adhesives.
- Hands-on experience working with and optimizing automated manufacturing equipment.
Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.
