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Job Title - Senior R&D Hardware Test Engineer Location - San Jose, CA Duration - 4+ Months Contract **Total Hours/week - 40.00
pay rate-$40-55/hr
Client: Medical Device Company** Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only) No H1B’s Description As a member of the Client Biosciences San Jose Hardware Engineering Research & Development team, you will be the NPI interface for new designs in collaboration with the manufacturing test engineering team and will be responsible for defining and developing the R&D automated test for all new board designs. You will work closely with the designers to offer guidance on the test requirements. Your designs will be leveraged by Compliance and validation engineers to conduct characterization of the designs. You will play a crucial role to enable synergies during the development process.
This equipment includes technology from every major area of science and engineering. The Hardware Engineering Research & Development team is responsible for high-speed cell analyzers and sorters that are designed to include lasers, detection electronics, fluidics, power supplies, low-noise analog circuits, high-speed data acquisition and digital signal processing and high bandwidth communication protocols.
We are looking for a Senior R&D Hardware Test Engineer with strong experience in instrumentation measurements both analog and digital. Knowledgeable in PCB test standards, FPGA testing and high speed board test design. Methodologies of calibration and understanding of measurements uncertainty, six sigma and ICT/DFT/FCT.
The candidate will work closely with the hardware design teams throughout the product life cycle by defining and specifying test requirements. You will be supporting pre-testing of the Hardware developed by the design teams and supporting the team through product execution, ultimately leading the manufacturing test team to leverage your ATE test platform.
The ideal candidate must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment across multiple projects simultaneously.
A Senior R&D Hardware Test Engineer’s primary responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Interface with the R&D designers and other Hardware Engineers to define the most efficient and accurate measurement for testing the boards functionality.
- Design the test fixtures.
- Ability to remotely manage computers using SSH or VNC protocol using Git version control.
- Work closely with validation test engineers to insure that the test fixtures would satisfy module automated testing.
- Drive system verification of solutions through ATE/FCT.
- Support the HW team with sub system bring-up and test fixtures.
- Responsibility for Test definition and calibration of the ATE.
- Collaborate with HW Design Engineers to develop and execute hardware verification test plans.
- Board level functional testing
- Design, build and program test systems used in HW testing as well as generate automated reports tracking for test results.
- Analyze test results and test data to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
- Extensive experience in testing of Digital and Analog/Mixed signal circuits
- Experience using RF measurement instruments, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, arbitrary waveform generators.
- Ability to read and interpret PCB schematics and perform basic digital and analog circuit analysis
- Experience designing and analyzing test procedures to minimize measurement error
- Knowledge of industrial controls systems and their communications interfaces and protocols such as Ethernet/IP
- Proficiency with measurement automation tools and scripting languages such as, Python, Labview, Labwindows and Matlab.
- Experience with electronic hardware design tools such as Cadence or Mentor Graphics
- Familiarity and experience working with, Gigabit Ethernet, FPD link, CAN, SPI, I2C, LIN, and RS232.
Desired Skills
- Ability to install and configure a Linux distribution on desktop (or embedded) systems.
- Familiarity with the pre-built high-performance computing (HPC) software stack used in AMD (Xilinx) devices.
- Comfortable installing pre-built Linux packages, with the occasional build from source.
- Write humble high-level test scripts in Python using pre-compiled software to support that aspirations low-level real-time DSP designers.
- ICT/ FCT
- FPGA BIST, High speed SERDEs, testing I-BERT
- Analog measurements ( noise, Jitter, oscilloscope, spectrum, DMM)
- Digital measurements ( logic analyzer, timing requirements)
- ADC and DAC testing ( noise, dynamic range)
- Instrument and test calibration procedures
- GUM analysis
- Six sigma application DFSS
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar technical discipline
- MSEE Preferred
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a Test Engineer supporting product introduction.
Assets
- Self-motivated, independent, and comfortable working in a matrix team environment and under time pressures.
- Strong problem analysis and problem solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Open mindset willing to learn new things and take on new challenges.
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