The position is a key position on the E&D Manufacturing Engineering and Test team. This position understands the engineering design verification requirements and ensures that they are met in the manufacturing process. Successful candidate will manage the product production transfer and release through Release to Manufacturing process. As required, provides sustaining engineering support to existing products by working with the engineering, development and manufacturing teams to resolve technical issues. Actively participates in yield improvement by working to identify and drive to resolution product and production issues. Ensures that our manufacturing partners receive the required level of product training.

This position will heavily interact with the Xbox game console, Xbox accessories, and Zune manufacturing partners, and must be skilled in a wide range of activities from manufacturing engineering and new product introduction to the designing and managing experiments with contract manufacturers in southern China. In order to be successful in this position, this individual must effectively collaborate with both the contract manufacturer and a variety of peer groups across the organization, including, but not limited to, Manufacturing Test, Quality, Hardware Development, Finance, Supply Chain, and Compliance.

This position is responsible for a wide range of activities. The successful candidate will have significant experience and/or expertise in the following areas:

• Manufacturing engineering. Excellent understanding of high volume electronics manufacturing processes
• New Product introduction. Understands entire product development process related to high volume consumer electronics
• Electrical Engineering. Good understanding of circuit concepts and standard board design practices. Demonstrates this understanding through the analysis, review and debug of existing systems, new and existing board designs.
• Helping to define and sustain the business processes and tools necessary to support new product launches while continuing to support a high volume sustaining production environment
• Assurance of vendor and product compliance to relevant criteria
• Financial acumen to assist with cost reduction and improvement activities
• Experience working with engineers and product development professionals
• Good knowledge of manufacturing business in computer peripherals or consumer electronics is essential
• Fluency in English is a real plus
• Must be a self-starter and able to perform independently with remote supervision

Qualifications:

Minimum BS/MS in Electrical Engineering.
A solid understanding of core engineering principles, circuit design and analysis are required.
Three to five years of experiencing designing, implementing, and shipping products of medium to high complexity.
Familiarity with PC, embedded system architectures hardware and software a plus.
Strong communication skills and must be able to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms.
Must be a self-starter and able to perform independently with remote supervision
Ability to speak fluent English is a significant plus.
This position will be located in Shenzhen, China.