Hardware Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Engaging with Design, Validation, and Applications Engineers to understand what functionality is expected from any given component and creating an appropriate test plan.
• Writing the needed test code and implementing it in the automation framework.
• Streamlining the New Product Introduction process by collaborating with Validation Engineers to ensure tests being used in the development process are also suitable for use in production.
• Ensuring adequate production test capabilities are ready in time for the release of all systems.
• Deeply understanding designs to evaluate tests, remedy test failures, and provide quick feedback to improve performance.
• Helping meet production goals related to takt time by right-sizing test coverage, leveraging test parallelism, and advocating for shifting functional testing upstream to vendors, ODMs, and CMs.
• Taking ownership of the tests and platform in our brand-new automated test framework.
• Documenting your work.
• Providing feedback to the design team so they know how to make the products we design more testable (DfM/DfT).

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in a production test environment is required.
• Love of hardware. Even though you'll be living in software, it's all for the success of the hardware, so you need to understand it and enjoy being hands-on.
• Understanding of and experience with software frameworks and scripting languages, preferably Bash and Python.
• Knowledge of lower-level Linux conventions and standard Linux tooling.
• Experience in a production test environment is required.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and standard communication protocols between them.
• Bachelor's Degree or comparable experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.