PWI Customer Assurance SW Engineer

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Role Summary

The Tier 4 Software Customer Assurance Engineer is a technical escalation owner for HP PageWide Web Press customer incidents and systemic reliability issues with deep expertise spanning press compute platforms networking/connectivity and print electronics/press subsystems. This role resolves complex cross-domain problems quickly to restore customer production drives root cause and prevention and partners closely with internal engineering (R&D) and service teams(GSBCS) to reduce recurrence. Tier 4 work includes managing elevated tasks performing remote diagnostics and (when required) customer site support and leading mitigation of top issues through trend analysis and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

1) Tier 4 Escalation Ownership & Resolution

• Own and drive resolution of Tier 4 elevated tasks/incidents collaborating with Tier 13 support Field Service and partners to restore press operations.
• Provide remote diagnostics and troubleshooting using logs press state reports and system data; request/clarify missing data and direct next steps.
• For critical/press-down situations provide timely technical leadership clear status updates and structured escalation as required by process.

2) Compute/network & OS / Software Environment Expertise

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues involving press compute stacks (server hardware OS images/bundles virtualization/containers where applicable storage performance diagnostics).
• Diagnose and resolve connectivity remote access firewall/VPN routing/DNS and other network-related issues impacting press operations serviceability and tooling.
• Create clear customer-ready technical guidance for network prerequisites and collaborate with service/account teams to unblock access.

4) Print Electronics & Press Subsystem Troubleshooting

• Lead complex investigations spanning print electronics press control subsystems and integration points (e.g. electrical/control cabinet behaviors sensors boards interlocks vision/adjacent electronics interfaces).
• Partner with hardware/WS and R&D teams for deep root cause and corrective action when defects require engineering fixes.

5) Problem Management Trend Analysis & Prevention

• Identify systemic issues through trend analysis define top problems and drive mitigations that reduce repeat cases and improve fleet reliability.
• Produce crisp RCAs document learnings and improve knowledge assets/playbooks to accelerate future resolutions.

6) Customer Centricity & Stakeholder Management

• Engage professionally with customers and internal stakeholders with a production-first mindset: fast containment clear communication and durable prevention.
• Translate technical complexity into actionable choices and risks for non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Engineering degree preferable computer science with at least 4 years of experience in Support organizations
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting background across compute platforms networking hardware/electronics-adjacent systems in production environments.
• Ability to perform structured debug: hypothesis evidence gathering isolation mitigation prevention.
• Experience working escalations and coordinating across multiple teams under time pressure.
• Excellent written/verbal communication; ability to produce customer-ready summaries and internal technical notes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with industrial equipment printing systems or complex electromechanical platforms.
• Familiarity with Tiered support models and escalation/task workflows (ServiceNow-style task elevation and closure discipline).
• Exposure to reliability engineering problem management and operational excellence methods (Pareto 5-Why fault tree etc.).

Core Competencies

• Customer Centricity: prioritizes restoring production; communicates clearly and respectfully.
• Systems Thinking: connects compute/network/electronics/press behaviors end-to-end.
• Execution Under Pressure: decisive containment disciplined follow-through.
• Collaboration: effective across Service Engineering and Partner organizations.

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