Manufacturing Test Engineer, Software/Electrical

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Run full-vehicle dry FAT and wet FAT in our test tank as test conductor, working through each procedure with the technicians on the floor
• Become the subject-matter expert on the vehicle's electrical and software checks, such as power sequencing and isolation, device power draw, device and network communications, navigation alignment and data logging
• Validate the operator control stations that run the vehicle, on their own and connected to the vehicle
• Bring each vehicle to its test configuration before FAT: load the software build under test and confirm every device's firmware and settings match the release
• Own what gets tested and where: decide which tests add value and which repeat earlier checks, and cut test time while still proving the product requirements
• Push tests upstream so problems are caught at the smallest assembly possible instead of at FAT, and give the product definition team design-for-test (DFT) feedback
• Triage every failed test step as a real defect, a procedure that no longer matches the as-built vehicle, a test-setup limit or a missing upstream step, and send it to the right owner
• Troubleshoot electrical and software failures using vehicle telemetry and logs, and lead data-driven root cause using structured problem solving

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of relevant experience, ideally designing tests for electromechanical hardware in a manufacturing environment
• Hardware testing and automated test systems
• Programming in Python, MATLAB, shell or similar
• Communication protocols such as USB, Ethernet, RS-232, RS-485, PCIe, HDMI and CAN
• Bench equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs and programmable power supplies
• Manufacturing test limits and the common failure modes that manufacturing introduces
• Complex electromechanical systems, and what it takes to make them work reliably