PCBA Component Engineer

Your challenge 

Are you passionate about applying electronic components in real products—not just selecting them, but understanding how they perform across design, manufacturing, and lifecycle?  As a PCBA Component Engineer, you strengthen Philips’ global component engineering capability by enabling engineering teams to make robust, compliant, and future-proof component choices. You combine strong component application knowledge with a data-driven way of working, leveraging automation and AI tools to improve quality, efficiency, and scalability.  You are part of a dedicated PCBA competence team within Electronic Design Services (EDS), working closely with Philips businesses worldwide. 

Within EDS (your core team): - PCBA Component Engineers - PCBA Technology Experts - PCBA Layout Design Engineers  

With Philips businesses (your customers): - Electronic Design Engineers - LCM Engineers - Procurement  

You act as the component engineering expert across organizational boundaries, contributing to a shared design responsibility model and enabling balanced decisions across functionality, lifecycle, manufacturability, and supply robustness. 

Your responsibilities 

• Support engineering teams in selection and application of electronic components

• Translate functional and system requirements into robust component choices

• Advise on alternatives, substitutes, second sources, and design trade-offs

• Provide insight into specifications, reliability, and application constraints 

• Support NPI and Lifecycle Management (LCM) projects - Perform BOM analysis (EOL, availability, compliance risks)

• Ensure compliance with RoHS, REACH and export control regulations

• Apply knowledge of export control and international sanctions frameworks (e.g. EAR, ITAR, EU Dual-Use, OFAC) to support compliant component selection

• Develop and apply multi-sourcing strategies to ensure product readiness, supply resilience, and global market access

• Contribute to root cause analysis for component-related issues

• Ensure high-quality, structured component data in PLM systems (e.g. Windchill)

• Work extensively with Excel for analysis, validation, and data structuring

• Process and transform data across tools and formats

• Automate repetitive engineering tasks using Python or similar scripting

• Drive improvements in data consistency, reuse, and scalability 

• Actively use AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Kairos, Claude in daily work

• Apply AI to accelerate data analysis and workflows, support decisions, and automate reporting 

We are looking for 

• BSc in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) 

• Hands-on use of AI tools (required)

• Strong knowledge of electronic components and their application 

• Knowledge of derating in electronic design

• Experience with BOM management and lifecycle processes 

• Strong Excel skills 

• Practical experience with Python or scripting

• Experience with PLM systems (e.g. Windchill)

• Knowledge of PCBA design and manufacturing processes

• Knowledge of RoHS, REACH and export control

• Knowledge of export control and international sanctions regulations (e.g. EAR, ITAR, EU Dual-Use, OFAC), with the ability to translate regulatory constraints into component selection decisions and multi-sourcing strategies

• Experience with multi-sourcing strategies

• Fluent in English 

• Analytical, data-driven, and engineering mindset

• Pro-active, structured, and pragmatic

• Strong collaborator across organizational boundaries

• Clear communicator

• Continuous improvement attitude 

What we offer 

A role at the intersection of component engineering, data, and AI - Opportunity to shape modern, data-driven component engineering - A dynamic, international project environment - Direct impact on product quality, compliance, and supply resilience - Development opportunities. You will be contracted by the Randstad and work on assignment with Philips.