Component Engineer

Component Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

12 months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Component Engineer to support Reality Labs hardware products. The Component Engineer will own the technical qualification, sourcing, and supply-risk management of electrical, electromechanical, and optoelectronic components across hardware products.

This role serves as the technical bridge between Electrical Engineering (EE), Global Supply Management (GSM)/Strategic Sourcing, Contract Manufacturers (CMs), and component suppliers, ensuring components are properly qualified, multi-sourced where possible, and managed for supply, cost, quality, and reliability throughout NPI and sustaining.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, qualify, and approve electrical, electromechanical, and optoelectronic components, including resistors, capacitors, ICs, connectors, discretes, inductors, filters, timing devices, PCB/FPC, camera/optics, display, and battery modules.
• Execute second-source and multi-source qualification activities to reduce supply risk, mitigate EOL, allocation, lead-time, and PCN-related shortages, and support cost-reduction initiatives.
• Determine component criticality and define appropriate qualification paths in partnership with EE reviewers.
• Manage New Part Requests (NPRs) and maintain qualified manufacturer part numbers (MPNs) within AVL, PLM, and CBOM systems.
• Execute Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) and track Product/Process Change Notifications (PCNs) across NPI and sustaining products.
• Perform and/or support component up-screening, derating, qualification, reliability assessments, and component-level failure analysis.
• Lead advanced BOM risk reviews to identify component issues early and maintain EE BOM integrity across the hardware portfolio.
• Partner with GSM/Strategic Sourcing and Product Cost Engineering teams as the technical counterpart for critical components.
• Support Contract Manufacturers with component-related technical inquiries, qualification requirements, and shortage escalations.
• Work directly with component suppliers and manufacturing partners across global regions.
• Leverage AI and data-mining tools to analyze component data, identify trends and risks, and develop engineering guidelines that enable data-driven decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in component engineering, hardware engineering, supplier quality, or supply-chain engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of passive and active electronic components, component datasheets, and qualification/reliability methodologies.
• Experience with up-screening, derating, failure analysis, and component qualification.
• Hands-on experience with PLM systems such as Teamcenter or Agile.
• Experience managing AVL, BOM/CBOM, ECN, and PCN processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.