Senior product development engineer vs senior mechanical engineer

Differences between senior product development engineer and senior mechanical engineer duties and responsibilities

Senior product development engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage the manufacturing of defense and aerospace electro-mechanical print circuit boards from prototype to production level.
• Create solid model concepts, mold flow simulations and structural finite element analysis FEA culminating into complete product assemblies using SolidWorks.
• Design PC base units with windows like graphical interface that link to main VME system for monitoring and control.
• Conceptualize and modele new product designs with SolidWorks.
• Design and fabrication of fixtures and tooling for testing of prototype and production electronic manual transmissions and individual sub-component assemblies.
• Develop testing procedures and processes to troubleshoot and eliminate problems in production, increasing efficiency and reducing product rework.

Senior mechanical engineer example responsibilities.

• Create DFMEA documents to help manage risks and improve initial quality.
• Set up and manage PCB manufacturing including all chemical baths, lasers, and exposure equipment.
• Restructure VHDL code and chip/module hierarchy to achieve timing goals for the dual cache controller and the chip.
• Achieve timely convergence of complex designs by building RTL models from validation area and integrating them, before official model release.
• Lead FPGA development of key digital communication component used in successful demonstration of spacecraft radio link.
• Provide mechanical design and sustaining engineering expertise to troubleshoot manufacturing defect trends and achieve a more robust and producible product.
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