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Mechanical Design Verification Engineer IV\ Location: Seattle, WA Duration: 12 months with Possible Extension upto 24 months Description: Summary: A Mechanical Design Verification Engineer (MDVE) at Meta uses engineering fundamentals, measurement systems knowledge, and hands-on creative skills to create, qualify, and execute verification tests, and to communicate results with product design partners. They will develop measurement and drive testing of MR HW product mechanical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - some of which are new to consumer electronics. Primary Responsibilities: Develop a deep understanding of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to be tested by collaborating across different disciplines and technology teams. Examples include functional parameters of user controls, customer-to-device interfaces, and data acquisition from such devices. Work with internal fabrication and prototyping teams to design test tooling. Develop and qualify customized test methods on turnkey and custom lab equipment. Design and execute test plans for these KPIs. Report results to MDVE leads and PDE partners to improve product performance. Additional Opportunities: Analyze data and results from various tests on prototype subsystems and devices. Review analysis results with peers, design engineers and cross-functional partners. Develop, operate, and sustain electromechanical automated testing systems. Design (CAD), procure, and assemble nests, fixtures, and tools. Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field is required. Required Skills: 4-5 years of mechanical engineering fundamentals application. Experience with engineering verification concepts and measurement devices. Experience developing and executing detailed test procedures. Displays attributes of a critical thinker and a focus on practical results. Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills. Strong analytical, problem solving, and engineering design ability. Strong ability to make sketches, perform common calculations, and generate measurement concepts. Practical experience with 3D CAD software. Experience with test and measurement systems Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals, work from the basics Preferred Skills: Experience with statistical analysis and designed experiments. Experience in consumer electronics mechanical verification-validation. Experience with electromechanical device control tools such as Arduino and Python. Experience with statistical and data visualization tools such as JMP and Tableau. Experience with Siemens NX. Nice-to-have Skills Statistical analysis and experimental design Consumer product experience Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects: Core of that is understanding what the measurement is, designing the system to do the measurement, then qualifying the system to do the measurement. Even before that, want to engage very early in product development as a design partner, so that we understand what it should do, how should it work, how do you tell it’s working, and we take care of the showing that it’s working. Design partnership role, as much as a quality test engineering role. Typical Day in the Role: Level 4 – Test design, test qualification, and test execution. Typical kinds of things that might happen in a day is conversations with design engineers to understand the functional outputs of a system, conversations with other engineers on our team and particularly tool designer to design test methods in the conceptual phase, so working with other test engineers to understand what test methods might exist and how to leverage and expand on those to test this, and then to plan and do the execution of the test with measurement systems for force and displacement, and potentially acoustics or mechanical deformations of systems. Gathering data and organizing it, possibly analyzing it. How will performance be measured: The MDVE Team Mission is to “Collaborate in the product development process to validate mechanical design requirements, accelerate design maturity, and verify that performance meets specifications.” We do this by asking, “What do we need to learn?” “What’s the fastest way to learn?" and “Is this the right thing for the customer?" Our ultimate success is indicated by a product ramping without late-program issues and meeting its customer-desired mechanical performance specifications. Thus, we measure our performance by speed of learning, quality of results, and rate of design improvement. Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities: Level 4 will be more hands on, more analysis, more lab time, potentially building some specialty expertise that might require a little bit of travel. Real test lab or verification experience, 4-5 years.

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