Staff Failure Analysis Engineer

Company	Bloom Energy
Location	San Jose, CA, USA
Salary	$112300 – $161700
Type	Full-Time
Degrees	Bachelor’s, Master’s
Experience Level	Senior, Expert or higher

Requirements

BS, MS in one of the following: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science or Physics
Minimum 8 years of Technical work experience
Knowledge of Failure analysis techniques, and tools
Proficiency in MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Databases
Practical working knowledge and application of SPC
Proficiency in the application of DOEs and ANOVA
Ability to travel 0-20% of time

Responsibilities

Obtain parts for failure analysis and perform investigation of the conditions prior to operation, factory build information and make a plan to perform systematic tear down and measurement to understand the root cause.
Ensure priority is given to fast-track FA for critical parts.
Document the failure analysis results in detail including word description, pictures, measurements, etc. as evidence to the results, and conclusions.
Work with in-house engineers, or quality personnel to utilize equipment to perform the failure analysis.
Utilize 3rd party labs as necessary for analysis that Bloom does not have inhouse capability.
Work cross functionally with Service, Install Quality, Reliability, SQE, and Logistics to address failures expeditiously.
Work cross functionally with Factory, Design, Install Quality, SQE to mitigate and prevent failures.
Build lessons learned into the next generation products.
Create metrics to measure failed parts, and turn around times for FA.
Determine the sampling plan for failed parts when repetitive symptoms are indicating a known problem.
Work with Engineering to “turn on” and “turn off” the failure modes in testing.
Work with controls team and the data analytics team to add detection of early symptoms of field issues that are happening after some time in the field.
Work with Engineering to improve self diagnostics of products to “annunciate” their potential failures based on changes in self monitored values.
Work with Fleet Analytics leader to inform of potential failure modes, and symptoms that may be indicative, so proactive sweeps can be done.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.