Manager Design Assurance Engineering

Remote Work: Hybrid

The Hardware Design Assurance Engineering team supports Zebra’s promise of quality to our customers and is responsible for ensuring products meet specifications throughout program phases from components to final product.

• Directs and oversees the work of a team of design assurance engineers and technicians
• Takes strategic direction and translates it into tactical projects and assignments designed to
execute the vision
• Performs departmental business activities such as annual performance reviews of subordinate
staff and assuring conformance to company policies
• Assigns work, coaches, develops and drives accountability for results with subordinate staff
• Communicates proactively with the project team and other stakeholders about progress against
reliability analysis and results. Uses experience and knowledge to proactively identify risks to
the project. Contributes to overall project leadership. Regularly presents outcomes and risk
analyses the project team, representing the DAE function, which typically include Senior level
audience members.
• Leads innovation efforts for the team by facilitating brainstorming activities and actively
benchmarking externally with other organizations on best practices in design assurance. Exposes
the team to novel approaches. Demonstrates openness / receptiveness to new ways of working.
• Determines some special project, policy development and provides process input to improve
initiatives for the function, assigns resources and oversees deliverables against objectives
• Acts as a design assurance engineer on complex programs, as workload dictates - working as
part of a design team, provides all design assurance deliverables required in the development
process at each phase, including:
o Evaluation of Design concepts and brainstorming of potential failure modes and design solutions
o Advising design engineering on the selection, reliability of components 
o Recommending design, test methods and statistical process control procedures or
service monitoring techniques for achieving required levels of product reliability,
MTBF, or uptime Service Level Objectives
o Determining reliability requirements of components or HW systems to achieve
company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives
o Using statistical methods or Service Level Indicators to design reliability objectives.
o Participate in creation and analysis of quality standards.
o Creating and analyzing designed experiments to determine main effects of high complexity or novel device sub-systems or HW Solutions to improve designs
Using hypothesis testing and other statistical methods to assess the significance of test
results or data algorithms to monitor real time reliability.
o Actively reviewing and understand market requirements to quantify metrics and
operational thresholds or reviewing customer use cases and services satisfaction
indicators to steer ongoing CI.
o Assuring projects and solutions, quality protocols are adhered to

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering field (Mechanical, Electrical SW, or Computer Science)
• Minimum 8 years
• Advanced knowledge, skill, and problem solving
• ability on computer-based systems
• Advanced knowledge and experience with spreadsheet,
• statistical software programs or SW Tools
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Data Driven oriented