Job Description

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary:

Be part of a highly dynamic and competent Engineering Team who is responsible to meet the quality, productivity and cost targets in a high volume, multi-product and life science regulated environment through developing effective world class engineering solutions.

Process/Product Lifecycle Engineer 2 serves an important role in ensuring that the product is transferred, manufactured and delivered at the utmost quality to the customer. The individual will interact extensively with other departments such as research and development, manufacturing, tooling, facilities, supply chain and quality assurance to develop processes for new products, sustain and improve processes for existing products.

Position Responsibilities:

Work closely with R&D to develop Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) processes for NPI, leveraging learning from existing products and provides feedback on material component selection and associated test plans

Sustain the production line to ensure Safety, Availability, Quality, Cost and Compliance (SAQCC) targets are met

Drive advanced failure analysis, root cause identification and corrective actions for product quality concerns and/or issues during manufacturing and NPI ramp

Analyzes field quality data, construct and execute design of experiments to identify areas for prevention and improved detection

Lead process or issue technical deep dive, characterization and First Principle understanding towards long term preventive and corrective measures

Experience with using engineering tools and software packages (eg R, JMP, etc) to test, design and evaluate products and manufacturing margins

Proactively drives process improvement activities through FMEA, DOE & Six Sigma etc. to ascertain and recommend improvement to processes or test methods

Ability to interpret test result and correlate results with product failure performance

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:

Core Technical Leadership

Demonstrates leadership in the development of technical innovations and in ensuring optimum collaboration and knowledge sharing of technical insights

Project Leadership & Troubleshooting

Actively works to resolve project challenges and facilitate knowledge transfer between team members focused on shared objectives

Technical Breadth/Depth

Demonstrates motivation to build deeper technical depth in area-of-expertise, and inform that knowledge base through understanding of associated areas

Customer-Centric Focus

Ensures that a positive customer experience informs both the approach to work, the quality demonstrated, and the endpoint for measuring success

Thought Leadership

Understands how businesses operate and uses this context to drive innovation and ethical decision-making

Change Management

Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization

Problem Solving

Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience with a Master\xe2\x80\x99s/Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree; or equivalent work experience

Experience in FDA-regulated environment is a plus

Knowledge about wafer fabrication processes will be an added advantage

Possess good understanding of manufacturing process, methodologies, and environment

Capable of defining test plans for components, materials, and systems

Skilled in failure analysis of multiple reliability failure modes

Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving and Project Management skills

Good understanding of Quality Assurance and Process Control Knowledge

Excellent team player, interpersonal and communication skill

Able to work well under stress, both internally and across functions and perform multitasking

Proactive, innovative, and self-motivating

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.

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