Our Mission is to be #1 by creating a better life for our customers. At LG Electronics, we make products and services that make lives better, easier, and happier through increased functionality and fun. Put simply, we offer the latest innovations to make “Life Good”! As a global leader, we strive for greatness not only in the products we make but in our people. That is why we are currently seeking the newest innovator to join our dynamic team as a Lab Engineer located in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. This role is onsite.

What we can offer you:

The Opportunity:

The HA R&D Organization is searching for an innovative individual to help support our new product development and testing goals, using modern laboratory testing methodologies and equipment. As a Lab Engineer, you will be working in the appliance testing laboratory to provide quantitative analysis and engineering results for new LG NPI products. In addition, you must have a creative mindset and must have an aptitude in engineering and analytical studies.

What You’ll Do:

o New LG NPI Product Development Support:

· Provide Engineering insight and improvement solution for new product development

· Screen and analyze new product performance provide decisions for next steps

· Statistically evaluate and interpret collected product data

· Evaluate and analyze data collected from field research using statistical approach

· Review shortcomings and faults of current design to pinpoint weaknesses and improvement points

· Utilize CAD based software and engineering analysis tools, design, and prototype new improvements for existing products

· Communicate with various R&D and factory laboratories to provide US usage-based engineering and design statistics

o LG HA R&D Lab - Performance Lab Functions:

· Create new LG internal testing protocols to benchmarking LG NPI Products

· Fully understand and interpret CR testing protocols to adapt for CR Benchmarking

· Create and manage testing plans to accomplish responsibilities in a timely manner

· Benchmark competitor products to understand advantages and disadvantages of each product

· Explore new opportunities for improvement through research of new testing equipment, methods, and industry standards

· Program new visual analysis tools to improve communication by eliminating excess and strengthening quantitative tools

· Create automated data analysis systems to automatically calculate results from data sets to reduce invested manpower

· Establish custom reporting structure to improve process from DAQ raw data to the reporting format

o Consumer Usage understanding and testing method creation support:

· Research and provide verification for new actual usage protocol development

· Create new testing methods based on the VOC/FFR/Customer information against standard AHAM/DOE based testing methods

· Run statistical analysis to determine the critical few from the trivial many for utility in protocol creation

· Create and program automatically calculated testing protocol templates/layouts to raise efficiency for data analysis

· Provide impact on DOE/AHAM/EPA standard rule making through expert input based on test results and consumer facts

o High Level data acquisition and analysis.

· Understand acquisition hardware/software to create acquisition models for lab purpose

· Provide guidance to lab technicians to properly utilize available technical resources for proper testing

o Desired Education and Experience:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or related technical studies with advanced and progressive skills in performing minor programming and software analysis to create forms and automatic calculation models

· Previous experience in a Laboratory Environment

· High level knowledge of analytical and statistical methods

At LG Electronics, we aspire to empower people and celebrate differences because we believe diversity will create the unexpected. We provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law or other protected traits/characteristics. Consistent with our commitment to providing equal opportunity and embracing diversity, we have implemented affirmative action to ensure applicants are employed and employees are treated without regard to these characteristics.

In addition to the above, we believe that pay transparency is a key part of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our salary ranges take in account many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skillset, experience, licensure, certifications, internal equity, and other business needs. We consider geographic pay differentials in final offers. Because we operate in many geographies and have many business units across the United States, where applicable, may not reflect the specific business or geography differential that will apply to the final offer.