Principle Hardware Manufacturing Process Engineer

Who we are

About BBPOS

BBPOS is one of the world leaders in payment devices and the inventors of mPOS technology. BBPOS products are used by large retailers and leading online platforms across multiple industries.  BBPOS is engaged in the business of manufacturing and supplying mobile and smart point-of-sale hardware, and the underlying software and infrastructure to deploy, manage, and monitor those devices.  BBPOS is now part of Stripe’s Terminal business since the acquisition in March 2022.  

About the team

Post acquisition, the BBPOS team is now an extension of the Stripe Terminal team.  Stripe Terminal helps Stripe users extend their online presence into the physical world. The Terminal team’s mission is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments. With Terminal, businesses can unlock in-person payments use cases that are right for their business model—whether it’s creating a flagship retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a mobile point-of-sale at their next event. 

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Who you are

We are looking for a Principle Hardware Manufacturing Process Engineer who has great expertise in enabling design and achieving a high level of manufacturing performance and quality and maintaining this level of performance throughout a product’s life.  This is someone who has significant experience on working with the R & D team to enable & optimize design  and defining manufacturing processes on-site at electronic manufacturing facilities. The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys critical thinking and problem solving, can successfully partner with a wide variety of stakeholders and is willing to dive deep.

This role will be based in Shenzhen. A significant amount of this person’s time will be spent on-site at partner contract manufacturing facilities. 

In this role you will lead your in in the following areas:

• Overall production process development, validation, optimization and documentation at both final assembly and component manufacturing vendors.
• In depth trial and process development in areas of key importance to a product performance; some examples being ultrasonic welding and laser etching.
• Providing design for manufacturing input to R&D/engineering teams during concept and development.
• Technical management of key supplier processes, particularly injection molding through team tooling engineer expertise. 
• Development and proposal of new processes and process improvements to reduce cost and improve quality.
• Performing failure analysis as it relates to manufacturing process impact on factory quality and field reliability issues. 
• Technical guidance/supervision to junior engineers

Minimum requirements

• 15+ years experience in manufacturing engineering, possessing knowledge of design for manufacturing, assembly process engineering and components manufacturing (e.g., tooling, molding and components secondary processes)
• Strong track record of implementing manufacturing improvements through DFM and DFx principles.
• Ability to analyze and understand part tolerance and tolerance stackup and their impact on assembly and component production.
• Experience leading and implementing manufacturing jigs/fixtures and process flows.
• Knowledge of GD&T principles and use.
• Possessing the interpersonal skills and experience needed to work with CM teams and management in a collaborative way to meet development schedules and mass-production deliveries.
• Working knowledge on quality management tools (e.g., six sigma, lean production, etc.)  and ability to interpret quality reports.
• Fluency in Chinese and English.

Preferred qualifications

• Mechanical design experience is strong plus
• Experience working in consumer electronics.
• Experience with POS hardware development and manufacturing including knowledge of tamper-proofing systems, and components for POS devices. 
• Familiarity with payments hardware related technologies e.g. ICC, MSR, tampering zebra strips etc.

For more information of the BBPOS and our career opportunities, please visit our website www.bbpos.com

We offer long-term career prospect and competitive remuneration package to the appointed candidate.

Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. Applicants not contacted within 8 weeks of applying should consider their applications unsuccessful.