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Performance Drone Works

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
HuntsvilleAlabamaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
May 1, 2026
Full-time

Senior Test Engineer, Electronics Manufacturing

Job description

Now, we’re entering a new phase of growth and are looking for a skilled Senior Test Engineer, Electronics Manufacturing to join our team, contributing to the next wave of system and tool development for our upcoming product lines. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in assisting in architectural design, parts selection, validation test design, overseeing hardware and software New Product Introduction enabling reliable, high-volume deployment for our advanced sUAS systems.

Job responsibilities

  • The ideal candidate will thrive working in an innovative and fast-paced environment, able to problem-solve dynamically, deliver and sustain thoughtfully designed and highly adaptable and scalable systems.
  • Partner with Hardware and Manufacturing Engineering to architect, design, and deploy electrical test systems for PCBAs, wiring harnesses, and subsystem-level validation in both internal production and contract…
  • Own the full lifecycle of test fixtures, including design, fabrication, validation, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop manufacturing test specification requirements, testing criteria, plans, and test fixtures for design verification and validation by production and contract manufacturing.
  • Perform hardware design tasks such as architecture design, component selection, schematic capture, schematic review, PCBA layout, PCBA layout review, and coordination of fabrication and assembly with contract…
  • Support emplacement, qualification, usage, technical support and repair of PCBA test fixtures for Production and contract manufacturers.
  • Support facilitation of outside processes for PCBA manufacturing processes including conformal coating and other forms of secondary processing.
  • Support of PCBA part availability risk identification and mitigation, part obsolesce and piece-part risk purchasing program with Procurement Team.

Job requirements

  • Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or related field and 8+ years of experience designing electrical test systems for production contract manufacturing environments.
  • Strong experience with electronic test hardware design, including embedded systems.
  • Experience developing, releasing and implementing electronic test solutions and processes including bed-of-nails, flying probe, and in-circuit test.
  • Experience with microcontrollers and their bootstrapping processes (such as flashing via SWD, JTAG USB, or similar interfaces).
  • Knowledge of common communication buses, such as I2C, USB, CAN, Serial, and SPI – along with their debugging and test procedures.
  • Strong skills in electrical CAD software (such as Altium Designer, CircuitStudio, Cadence, etc.) performing schematic capture and PCBA layout.
  • Experience with MES/PLM systems and integrating those processes into an electronics manufacturing test fixtures.
  • Experience developing custom Altium jobs, draftsman fabrication, and draftsman assembly documents.

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