Staff Electronics Component Engineer - USA - CA - San Jose (Ridder), United States
$112,050 - $160,050 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for the technical selection, qualification, approval, lifecycle management, and reliability oversight of electronic components used in company products. The position supports long-life products designed for 15+ years of continuous operation.
What you'll do
- Act as the liaison between Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Sourcing to ensure manufacturable, reliable, and supply-secure product designs.
- Define and maintain component requirements, specifications, qualification standards, and approved vendor lists.
- Review BOMs for obsolescence, sole-source exposure, lifecycle status, geopolitical risks, and supply continuity.
- Review and approve PCNs, SPCNs, EOL notices, last-time-buy proposals, manufacturer changes, and related CCR/CCB/ECO/MCO documentation.
- Collect and assess supplier reliability, FIT/MTBF, MSL, and field-failure data; support failure analysis, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and supplier escalations.
- Establish controls for counterfeit, broker-sourced, and non-franchised components to protect quality, reliability, and traceability.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Five or more years of experience with electronic components, component engineering, supplier quality, hardware engineering, or electronics manufacturing.
- Strong knowledge of electronic components, including Resistors, capacitors, inductors, ferrite beads, thermistors, Diodes, MOSFETs, analog and digital ICs, Microcontrollers, processors, FPGAs, memory, power-management devices, Crystals, oscillators, connectors, relays, and power supplies.
- Experience interpreting component datasheets, drawings, specifications, application notes, and qualification reports.
- Experience with component qualification and reliability testing.
- Working knowledge of industry standards such as IEC, JEDEC, AEC-Q, ASTM, IPC, RoHS, REACH, and MSL requirements.
- Experience reviewing PCNs, EOL notices, datasheet changes, manufacturing-site changes, and supplier corrective actions.
Nice to have
- Experience with telecom, datacom, optical networking, aerospace, medical, automotive, or other high-reliability products.
- Experience supporting products with long operating-life requirements.
- Experience with BOM management, PLM, ERP, lifecycle-management, or component intelligence tools such as Agile, Accuris, SiliconExpert, Arena, or Windchill.
- Experience with supplier audits and global component manufacturers.
- Knowledge of sulfur resistance, corrosion, contamination, tin whiskers, solderability, delamination, cracking, electromigration, and other electronics reliability risks.
- Familiarity with semiconductor process technologies, package construction, die revisions, and manufacturing-site transfers.
- Experience qualifying alternates and drop-in replacements.
- Knowledge of counterfeit-part prevention and broker-source controls.
- Experience with engineering change processes, AVL/AML management, CCRs, MCOs, ECOs, and risk buys.
Skills: component requirements, qualification standards, obsolescence, failure analysis, reliability testing
This role has been open 3 days — well below the 59-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
430
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$158k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lumentum | All employers we track in this specialty (430 roles · 71 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 430 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 100 | 9729 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 11 d | 59 d (−48 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: component requirements, qualification standards, obsolescence, failure analysis, reliability testing
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 74 open roles · median 149 d
- Infineon Technologies · 30 open roles · median 44 d
- Analog Devices · 21 open roles · median 52 d
- onsemi · 20 open roles · median 67 d
- Intel Corporation · 17 open roles · median 36 d
- Renesas Electronics · 17 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 430 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 71 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.