Consumables Design Engineer

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The Staff Consumables Design Engineer is responsible for Designing, Testing, and Validating new consumable products in collaboration with multi-disciplined engineering teams. This includes translating product requirements into scalable, sustainable production of consumables parts and assemblies.

This position is part of the R&D Consumables Team and will be located in Sunnyvale, CA. The R&D Consumables team spearheads the engineering of Cepheid’s consumable components (plastic parts). From designing new components, performing verification activities on design inputs, to validating quality of our product, this department plays a critical role in delivering products that meets or exceeds the customer’s need.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with Assay R&D, Chemistry R&D, R&D Lab Operations, Systems Integration, Technical Operations, and Quality to work on Innovation and New Product Development projects taking responsibility of full product development lifecycle from conception to product launch and transfer to Manufacturing. Document that the product meets production demand, customer needs and FDA requirements in a medical device environment.

• Enable consumables development using CAD, engineering drawings, finite element analysis, building prototypes, testing, part and equipment qualification and verification with an emphasis on defining part specifications, improving manufacturability, optimizing processes and achieving cost targets.

• Support the cross-functional teams with lab equipment and automation set up including vendor communications, fixture designs, standard operating procedures, control plans, test method development and quality control procedures.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Material Science, Plastics or related field) with 8+ years of related work experience or Master’s degree in field with 6+ years of related work experience or equivalent experience.

• Proven expertise in Plastic Injection Molding Part Design, Mold Design, Injection Molding Process development and Mold Qualification.

• Product life cycle experience, including design, test planning, execution, data analysis, associated documentation, and implementation to large-scale manufacturing in a medical device environment under design control processes.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting experience, including understanding of system interfaces and quickly analyzing, tackling, and resolving system interoperability problems in ambiguous and complex situations to understand root cause and proficiency with data analysis software to conduct relevant analyses.

• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration when faced with various challenges, including but not limited to continuous improvement and problem-solving, in a cross-functional environment.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Working knowledge of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) or other biological applications of fluorescence-based techniques.

• Working with Finite Element Analysis Tools such as Ansys Mechanical and CFD.

• Metrology Method Development and Validation for Plastic parts…