Job Description

Locations

• PALO ALTO, California, United States

Salary

Skills Required

• hands-on experience with FPC manufacturingintermediate
• industrializing and managing FPC suppliersintermediate
• Subject Matter Expert on Flexible Printed Circuitsintermediate
• Rigid-Flexintermediate
• Conductive Trace Printing on Flexible Polymer materialsintermediate
• quality tools such as APQP, PPAP SPC, RCCAintermediate
• control charts and pareto analysisintermediate
• industry specifications and standards especially IPC and JEDECintermediate
• optimizing FPC panel designintermediate
• material vs cost vs capacityintermediate
• roll-to-roll drillingintermediate
• platingintermediate
• DESintermediate
• laminationintermediate
• coverlay alignmentintermediate
• PI/FR4 attachintermediate
• e-testintermediate
• FPC Assembly manufacturing processintermediate

Required Qualifications

• Degree or relevant experience in Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering (experience)
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with FPC manufacturing or industrializing and managing FPC suppliers (experience, 5 years)
• Subject Matter Expert on Flexible Printed Circuits, Rigid-Flex, or Conductive Trace Printing on Flexible Polymer materials (experience)
• Familiarity with quality tools such as APQP, PPAP SPC, RCCA, and related methods like control charts and pareto analysis (experience)
• Strong knowledge and understanding of industry specifications and standards especially IPC and JEDEC (experience)
• Experienced with optimizing FPC panel design, and material vs cost vs capacity (experience)
• Strong understanding of roll-to-roll drilling, plating, DES, lamination, coverlay alignment, PI/FR4 attach, and e-test (experience)
• Solid technical knowledge of the FPC Assembly manufacturing process (experience)
• International travel is required to engage with manufacturing partners, sometimes on short notice (experience)

Responsibilities

• Support with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) based on FPC supplier fabrication limitations and guide Design Engineers to optimize FPC layouts and designs
• Define and maintain FPC specifications, criteria, and reliability standards to improve supplier performance for incumbent and new FPC suppliers
• Review and define APQP/PPAP requirements as the primary owner and approver of downstream FPC and rigid-flex suppliers
• Conduct FPC supplier audits and support with the development of additional audit criteria to assess suppliers to meet Tesla’s high standard of quality
• Drive FPC suppliers on quality issues and field escalations based on root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Support negotiations for piece price and product development to ensure that Tesla’s pricing meets best-landed-cost expectations as well as Supplier Industrialization standards of Best-In-Class quality
• Participate on cost reduction initiatives by exploring new and innovative process, materials, design and new technologies

Benefits

• general: Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• general: Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• general: Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• general: Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• general: Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• general: 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• general: Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• general: Employee Assistance Program
• general: Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• general: Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• general: Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• general: Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• general: Tesla Babies program
• general: Commuter benefits
• general: Employee discounts and perks program

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