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Location: United States, CA, Mountain View
Job ID: 730087 24063
Product: Xbox Gaming
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

This position is for a CAD Engineer to be part of the Xbox 360 console development team. The team is responsible for aggressive cost reduction of the console throughout the life of the product as well as expanding the market for the console in derivative products. The position involves working closely with a cross functional team of electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, test engineers, component engineers, manufacturing engineers, and program managers in multiple locations.
You will be part of a team of CAD engineers who are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of multilayer, high pin count, high performance printed circuit boards. The responsibilities of this position are focused on board layout,setting up design constraints, routing and post processing of complex, high speed, multilayer printed circuit boards (Allegro) with considerations for design for manufacturability, test, assembly, EMC and EMI.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsible for the future design layout studies, XBOX360 motherboard layout as well as manufacturing test fixture boards and other supporting test boards.
Allegro Library footprint development and checking.
Procedure documentation and maintenance.
Interact with other MS PCB layout resources, share best practices.
Work with Mechanical Engineering team in providing design solution.
Check designs using Valor Enterprise 3000.
Layout design tapeout,file transfer to fabrication supplier and file posting and notification to engineering teams.

Qualifications:
Must have at least 20 years background as CAD layout designer. Must have a working knowledge of electrical/mechanical components usually associated with a PC motherboard.
Prior design and implementation of PC motherboards, analog/digital circuit design, test vehicles, high speed busses (PCIe, SATA, USB, DDR2, GDDR3, HyperTransport, etc.) are required.
Design for manufacturing and test by adhering to relevant internal DFM/DFT guidelines, IPC and/or ANSI standards are required.
Working knowledge of complete design flow process using the following tools: Cadence Concept, Allegro, Constraint Manager, Valor Enterprise 3000 are highly desired.
Knowledge of high volume consumer electronics design and manufacturing is desired.
Strong interpersonal communication skills and effective written/oral communication.
Ability to work self-directed and closely within a team environment when required.
Excellent time management skills. Ability to prioritize/perform multiple tasks.
Attention to detail a must. Proactive solving of ambiguity issues.
Able to speak fluently with PCB fabrication suppliers, Development Engineering, Component Engineers, Mechanical and Test Engineering.
Domestic travel may be required.

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Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 730088 24058
Product: Xbox Gaming
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

The Xbox Component Engineering team is looking for an individual who can support Mechanical Engineering development especially in the area of document updates, part drawings, vendor information, and mechanical configuration management support. The position will encompass Component Engineering for the Electronic Engineering team as required.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Establish component part numbers and respond to component development changes including ECR, ECO & Deviations needed to support current development cycles.
Establish/maintain vendor part numbers (AVL) for components and assemblies working with Microsoft preferred vendors.
Responsible for securing specifications, proper attachment to Microsoft part numbers, and specification maintenance.
Establish/maintain bills of materials (BOM) for mechanical assemblies.
Define classification requirements for mechanical components in Teamcenter then update/maintain Teamcenter mechanical component classification.
Work with Compliance Engineering to determine mechanical component compliance readiness for promoting mechanical items to production status.
Assist with developing any guidelines, processes, or training necessary to insure consistent methods of obtaining and entering project information into Teamcenter. This includes working with our contract manufacturers with any problematic incoming inspection documentation.

Qualifications:
Strong interpersonal communication skills and effective written/oral communication.
Ability to work self-directed and closely within a team environment when required.
Excellent time management skills. Ability to prioritize/perform multiple tasks.
Attention to detail a must. Solve ambiguity issues with configuration information before processing.
Must have at least 5 years background as an Engineering Technician and at least 5 years background in Manufacturing Engineering. Must have a working knowledge of electrical/mechanical components usually associated with a PC motherboard.
Able to speak fluently with vendors, Development Engineering, Component Engineers, Procurement, and especially Mechanical Engineering.
At least two years experience using Siemens? Teamcenter PLM software in a power user roll.
At least two years experience in drawing configuration management, BOM structures, and Component AVL maintenance within Siemens? Teamcenter PLM program.

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Location: China, Shenzhen
Job ID: 732855 25550
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

The Xbox Accessories Group is looking for a motivated hardware development program manager to join our team in Shenzhen, China. This position offers the opportunity to apply leadership and program management skills to the development of exciting, cutting edge, high-volume consumer electronic products such as game controllers, network adapters, memory devices, headsets, charging devices, and a variety of other products used with the Xbox 360? game console. Primary responsibilities include managing hardware product development program teams with diverse disciplines from engineering to product planning/marketing and bring a product from concept into high volume production. Accountable for delivering programs ranging in complexity from component qualifications to new products.

As an Xbox Accessories Dev PM, you would own overall program responsibilities of cost, schedule and performance. The specific tasks include resource planning, program status reviews, project budget management, risk definition and risk management, schedule development, work with legal to create development contracts, and negotiating contractual terms. In addition, this position requires managing and coaching the vendor employees in the local PM team and making sure the programs that they are working on can be successfully delivered.

As a candidate for this job, you will ideally have a very strong background in development program management. Technical strengths must include knowledge of hardware development, product test and qualification; excellent technical and analytical skills; strong written and verbal communication skills. Also, program management strengths must include managing the development of high volume consumer products and should include multi-disciplinary, internal and external team leadership to meet overall program objectives and program deliverables that include product specifications, development schedules, costed BOM, team meeting minutes, project monthly status reports, and design review summaries.

Qualifications:
? Team leadership for cross functional product development team.
? Able to identify areas of ambiguity and to make these areas clear for the team.
? Experience working with product planning in the definition of product feature requirements and writing product specifications.
? Management of programs involving masked ROM development.
? Collaboration across multiple disciplines and groups.
? Must demonstrate risk anticipation, assessment, and management.
? 10+ years of program management experience in consumer electronics, having a proven track record of delivering high-volume hardware projects.
? Excellent people skills, strong written/oral communication skills.
? Must be self-motivated and results-driven.
? Strong customer focus and able to achieve success in a dynamic/fast pace environment.
? Exceptional communication skills.
? Experience required with MS Project Schedule, issue tracking systems, and all MS Office applications including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, as well as Engineering Change Management systems.]]> http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Shenzhen-Program-Manager-2-MACH-SZ-Job-CN/928449/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Shenzhen-Program-Manager-2-MACH-SZ-Job-CN/928449/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Job Category: Hardware Engineering
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 731603 25490
Product: Microsoft Surface
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division
Travel Required: 10%

Are you passionate about consumer and entertainment products and technologies? The Surface Team focuses on lighting up Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having compelling and powerful devices that enable the experiences our consumers want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!

Role & Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior Thermal Design and Analysis Engineer who is charged-up by leading system-level and sub-system thermal analysis on consumer electronics through fast-paced product development cycles. A strong mix of technical breadth and vision allow you to work cross-functionally to provide system level design support for conceptual chassis layouts to help the mechanical design team with the air flow and heat sink and heat sink attachment design direction that best balances performance, cost, manufacturability, acoustic performance and reliability. You are highly motivated and enjoy bringing technical and tactical leadership to cross-disciplinary teams.

An ability to manage complex projects and design rigor against development timeline needs is required, and your excellent communication skills allow you to work seamlessly with teams across various engineering functions and geographies. As such, you are willing to travel internationally at times to support design and manufacturing activities. You must be able to work well with international contract manufacturers.

Additional Responsibilities include:

Provide analytical design and analysis of these systems to support the mechanical design team via tools such as ICE PACK or FLOW THERM via either (or both) internal or sub-contracted design sources.

Provide direction and input for empirical test designs to validate the analytical analysis, these include thermal load board, wind tunnel, hot plate, thermal transit, etc and to help manage the construction and testing of these test vehicles, either internally or outsourced to sub-contractors.

Write thermal component design and test specifications and validate and document compliance with these specifications both via internal and outsourced testing. Develop, conduct and manage all empirical testing via thermal load boards and full function development and retail systems running software programs that exercise the system power levels. Conduct and manage system level thermal mapping and IC thermal corner study testing plus thermal reliability and assist in mechanical environmental testing validation as it relates to thermal performance.

Include ongoing cost reduction and multiple supplier testing as well as design improvement recommendations and validation. Direct interface with many different suppliers will be required. Staying abreast of current and developing thermal solution technology activity will also be the responsibility of the engineer.
Experience with accelerated test methodologies (Halt, Strife, Ret, etc), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) would be a bonus.

Qualification Summary
Required:
B.S. in mechanical engineering or related engineering field with a minimum of four years of directly related experience in consumer electronics industry or similar.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Ability to travel internationally.

Preferred:
MS or PhD in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on System Thermal Design or Heat Transfer.
High volume product experience would be a plus.
Mechanical design capability and experience in a common CAD package such as ProE or SolidWorks
Experience with manufacturing, thermal components supply chains and cross-communications between design, ODM and third party vendor teams.]]> http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Redmond-Senior-Thermal-Design-Engineer-Job-WA-98052/927836/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Redmond-Senior-Thermal-Design-Engineer-Job-WA-98052/927836/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Job Category: Hardware Engineering
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 732256 25491
Product: Microsoft Surface
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division
Travel Required: 10%

Are you passionate about consumer and entertainment products and technologies? The Surface Team focuses on lighting up Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences our consumers want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!

Role & Opportunity:
The Surface development team is seeking qualified candidates for a Senior Electrical Engineer. The responsibilities of this position are focused on specifying, designing (schematic capture, PCB layout, BOM, cost analysis), implementing and verifying the motherboard and other various sub-system boards that make up the Surface product. This work includes development of requirements and evaluating different solution for functionality, cost, and risk. The subsystems on the motherboard include (but are not limited to): High speed buses (front side bus, memory bus, PCIe bus, SATA bus, USB bus, I2S, etc.), memory, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, processors, audio/video, system clocking, power and thermal management, and misc. analog/digital circuitry.
The position involves working closely with industrial designers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, software engineers, test engineers, component engineers, and program managers.

Qualifications:
Minimum BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related field.
Minimum of 5 years experience contributing to the design and production of complex products in the consumer PC or consumer electronic industry.
A solid understanding of core engineering principles, fundamental circuit design, and analytical techniques is required. Familiar with high speed design signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques & modern processors
Familiarity with PC, embedded system architectures hardware and software, experience with implementation of high speed serial buses (SATA, PCIe, USB) and/or high speed parallel buses such as: memory bus (DDR2, GDDR3, etc.), CPU front side bus, Hyper transport, and/or voltage regulator/ power delivery design a plus.
Design for manufacturing and test experience is required. Experience with CDM partners a must.
Strong bench evaluation and in-lab debugging skills are required.
Hands-on board design experience, familiar with design tools including Cadence and Allegro.
Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms.
Must be able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving environment.
The ability to comprehend and assimilate technical concepts across multiple disciplines is a plus.
Enthusiastic, motivated and self driven.
Domestic and international travel may be required.

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Location: China, Shenzhen
Job ID: 716568 14767
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

Microsoft is a world leader in the design of personal computer communications devices. We are currently looking for person with a passion for technology to drive the verification of new integrated communications devices. The candidate will be part of a fast paced concurrent engineering team comprised of all functional disciplines to bring new products to market.

Primary responsibilities will include: 1) The development and execution of design verification plans for audio/video devices, microprocessor platforms and commercial modules that form the building blocks for those devices; and 2) the development of manufacturing test plans to move products into high volume production.

Expectations:
Candidates will be required to contribute a high level of system design understanding in the interaction of hardware, firmware, standard computer interfaces such USB, wireless interfaces, software drivers and operating systems.
The verification engineer will be responsible for working closely with design, marketing and usability teams to identify and define key product performance metrics. Candidate will be required to apply both objective and psychometric audio quality characterization expertise and knowledge of industry standards in developing test cases and laboratory test environments.

She/he should be able to combine a broad understanding of acoustics, transducers, DSP?s, EE and ME hardware design principles to provide insight on risks and design trade-offs during the architecture phase as well as provide the characterization of acoustic systems during development.

Solid electrical engineering and data analysis practices will be required throughout the product cycle including: review and understanding of industry standard specifications for interfaces; product specification review, design analysis, performing risk analysis and developing contingency plans, participating in design reviews, performing verification of design functionality and PC compatibility.
Candidates should have excellent leadership skills; drive to solve technical issues and a passion for delivering world class products. Applicant will function as a development team member through the development cycle and will be responsible for creating complete design verification plans and schedules; architecting new tests and techniques while tracking tasks against deliverables and project milestones; and communicating product performance information to the extended technical and business team.
Strong skill-sets in analysis and problem solving as well as communication are required. Candidate should be a team player capable of delivering in a collaborative work environment.

Minimum Qualifications:
? A BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree
? Excellent interpersonal skills including written and oral communications.
? 6+ years of experience in design or verification of electronic devices
? Demonstrated work experience in the audio design or verification field
? A history of increasing responsibilities and decision making experience.
? Ability to program in Matlab or similar programming language

Preferable Qualifications:
? Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree
? 6+ years of work experience in the audio design or verification field.
? Experience with designing and executing tests in an anechoic chamber environment
? Working knowledge of video capture methods and design considerations
? Experience with audio compression formats and tradeoffs (MP3, WMA, AC3, MPEG4-ALS, MPC, etc?)
? Experience working with Asian partners to bring high volume consumer products into production.
? Working knowledge of LMS Virtual Lab software
? Working knowledge of USB interface technology
? Experience with 2.4GHz low power RF designs.

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Location: China, Shenzhen
Job ID: 718955 16086
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

Position Summary:
The Process Engineer position will showcase your proven manufacturing and process experience, your solid communication and influencing skills to drive for process improvement and NPI readiness for the factories/suppliers. This position?s core focus is managing outsourced manufacturing (factory) operations for assigned suppliers by managing manufacturing process control, driving continuous process improvement and excursion prevention at the factory. The position requires a high degree of technical knowledge of manufacturing processes.

Core Job Responsibilities:

Be the front line interface with CM for sustaining engineering/process/technical/quality issues
Drive for engineering/quality continuous improvement and excursion prevention
Drive process compliance through process audit and continuous improvement from CM to meet/exceed business requirement.
On site verification and audit factory engineering/process compliance to MS requirement and proper CA implementation.
Lead and organize team to improve process yield, solve production problems, increase productivity and UPH.
Provide manufacturing support; resolve process related issue and FMEA implementation during NPI.
Review DFM/DFA rules with factory to ensure rules compliance
Drive for prompt and effective resolution on Customers? issues
Deal with process and customer documentation.

The successful candidate should have significant experience and/or expertise in many of the following areas:

Process/project Management
High volume consumer electronics manufacturing
Negotiation skills and the ability to participate in the closure of complex engineering/process problems
Familiar with process control and NPI process
Experience directly managing and leading a technical team
Fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese

In addition to effective management skills, the successful candidate will exhibit strength in the following MS competencies:

Great communication skills both verbal and written
Cross Group Collaboration
Dealing with Ambiguity
Work independently and under pressure
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Location: China, Shenzhen
Job ID: 718956 16085
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

Objective of position

To develop, build up, and maintain a World Class Sourcing Management team in China. Achieving year-on-year improvement in a TCO environment (Cost, Quality & Compliance, Assurance of Supply, Service & Support) by facilitating strategic sourcing activities for a portfolio of commodities within E&D. Be a leader/facilitator of E&D-wide sourcing teams, co-accountable with E&D Supply Management for execution and implementation of the sourcing strategy. The GSM will work closely with E&D supply management via ongoing category teams and other functions within the business unit (e.g., Engineering/Dev, Technical Services, and Tier-1 Manufacturing). The position will have a direct reporting relationship to the E&D Group Procurement Manager in region.

Key responsibilities

1. Facilitate the sourcing strategy for commodities in the following four categories, MECH ID, PACKAGING, ELECTRICAL, and ELECTRO-MECHANICAL. (ELECTRICAL Commodity such as Standard IC, Capacitor, Resistor, VREG, LED, Fuse, Inductor, Diodes, Transistor, EEPROM, Crystal, Oscillator related procurement/sourcing supply chain experience is definitely a plus) Once a sourcing strategy has been developed, the GSM will communicate, monitor and aggressively manage business unit compliance with the strategy. The GSM will also establish working relationships with E&D supply management & other functions (e.g. engineering, operations, quality assurance), bringing a strategic sourcing perspective to all key processes.

2. Contract Negotiation, build up and maintain overall supplier relationship.
The GSM need to negotiate the Microsoft NDA/CPA? all the contract with our strategic suppliers. Need to ensure the best term and conditions for Microsoft; achieve the best interest for Microsoft through negotiation. The GSM owns the overall business relationship with the supplier. The GSM also need to team up cross functional team, such as engineering, NPI, SQE, factory management team? to ensure product delivery/quality from E2E.

3. Develop an expertise in E&D business needs and capabilities for category components. The GSM will understand business unit needs and capabilities and provide this input to all agreements negotiated by category teams. On an ongoing basis, the GSM will remain current on supply market trends, supplier economics, and best practice sourcing at a local level, continuously updating the team on changing capabilities and needs of the business units, hereby aligning the sourcing strategy and business unit interests.

4. Monitor and report the local performance of suppliers. Supplier performance must be tracked, reported and managed by the GSM. Formal and informal review procedures will be developed to provide feedback to suppliers and ensure that supplier performance issues are quickly addressed.

5. Measure, track & report supply chain performance within each spend category. GSM will identify sources of data for required performance metrics, create a process to collect the data, and champion the actual collection efforts. Each quarter, the GSM will report to the business unit performance data for the GSM assigned commodities. The GSM will conduct and support the supplier SABR in region.

6. Support supplier Development and Qualifications in Region.
The GSM will team up cross-functional teams to monitor and track down all the assigned commodity qualification until closure and ramp up in time for the demand.

7. Assure Continuity of Supply.
The GSM will monitor the region materials supply status. Work with Tier One materials management team and Redmond category PM/forecast/supply team closely to assure the continuity of the supply. To make sure the right resources used on the most urgent case.

8. Identify and implement best practices within assigned spend categories. By identifying and communicating ?pockets of excellence? within sourcing at the business unit to E&D supply chain leadership, the GSM will contribute to continuous development of Company?s sourcing knowledge base and best practices. Especially in the area of Compliance and Vendor Code of Conduct, the GSM is chartered to drive and maintain a high level of transparency across every step of our sourcing decision making process in region.

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Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 732277 25364
Product: Xbox Gaming
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

The Xbox 360 Console development team is seeking qualified candidates for Senior Program Manager to drive and manage the development of Xbox 360 Optical and Hard Disk Drives. This Program Manager will join our team of Console Program Managers, working directly with Console Development, Manufacturing, Reliability, Console Test, Platform Software and our outside manufacturers to deliver ODD/HDD sub-system solutions for the Xbox product line. The position works closely with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, software engineers, console software, firmware engineers, test engineers, component engineers, and third party manufacturers. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for scoping development programs, creating and driving schedules, tracking, facilitating and reporting on program progress, while leading teams to deliver these products.

Qualifications:
- Minimum BS/MS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Successful experience defining and taking complex products to market
- Minimum of 5 years combined experience designing and program managing complex hardware designs
- Experience with hands on electrical design is strongly desired
- A solid understanding of technical engineering principles and analytical techniques is required
- Excellent people skills are a must
- Strong knowledge of the hardware development process is a must.
- Experience with optical subsystems is highly desired.
- Prior hardware / software design and implementation of embedded systems is strongly desired
- Strong communication skills are required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written form, as well as comprehend and assimilate technical concepts across multiple disciplines
- Experience working with international development and manufacturing teams is strongly desired
- Enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven
- Domestic and international travel is required

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Location: China, Shenzhen
Job ID: 732324 25302
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

Lead Product Engineer for the Xbox game console, Kinect and Zune products in China.

This position understands the engineering design of Microsoft products and ensures that the products are shipped in highest quality during mass production. Successful candidate will lead a group of Product Engineers to drive yield improvement and quality improvement by understanding and resolving factory failures and early returns.

This position will heavily interact with the Xbox game console and accessories contract manufacturers, and must be skilled in a wide range of activities from designing and root cause analysis to the manufacturing engineering and managing experiments with outsourced contract manufacturers locating in Guangdong province of China. In order to be successful in this position, this individual must effectively collaborate with both the contract manufacturer and a variety of peer groups across the organization, including, but not limited to, Factory Management, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, Quality, and Hardware Development.

Description:
Ensure no quality excursion in mass production of products
Understand product designs and provide engineering support at engineering builds
Lead a group of engineers to track production problems and timely conduct fault isolation and failure analysis
Being the engineering hub during mass production and proactively work with cross-groups to drive continuous improvement
Provide engineering debug procedures to contract manufacturers for proper repairs
Provide professional recommendation to Quality team for potential quality issues
Require frequent travel to contract manufacturers for on-site support
Qualifications:
Mininum BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent discipline
8+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and shipping products of medium to high complexity
A solid understanding of core electrical engineering principles, circuit design and analysis
Strong communication skills and must be able to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms
Understand failure modes effects and analysis
Strong technical understanding of industrial standard interfaces - SATA, USB, PCIe, 802.11b/g/n, Ethernet
Strong understanding of multimedia interfaces are preferred - HDMI, HDTV, SPDIF
Strong bench evaluation and in-lab debugging skills
Understands entire product development and manufacturing processes related to high volume consumer electronics.
Knowledge in computer architecture, system design and manufacturing environment
Ability to understand test scripts and software programs
Ability to grow an engineering group with proven technical leadership

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.]]> http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Shenzhen-Lead-Product-Engineer-MACH-SZ-Job-CN/923698/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Shenzhen-Lead-Product-Engineer-MACH-SZ-Job-CN/923698/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS