Instrumentation Technician 2

About Exponent

Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve our clients’ most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges. We are committed to engaging multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower our clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world.

Our Opportunity

Exponent’s Vehicle Engineering Practice provides a wide range of vehicle evaluation and testing services. We work with automobiles, buses, trucks, vans, bicycles, trailers, motorcycles, trains, forklifts, tractors, cranes, mining and construction equipment, ATVs, golf carts, and more. We assist clients in addressing multi-faceted issues related to accident causation, failure analysis, vehicle design, and electrical subsystems, and we provide complex component and full-scale product testing services.

Instrumentation Technician 2

• Work as part of a technician team with a wide range of responsibilities that includes working with our consultants in preparing for and conducting various system, subsystem, and component-level tests.
• Set up and conduct instrumented test programs of all types.
• Set up data acquisition systems, including Dewesoft, Diversified Technical Systems (DTS), National Instruments (cDAQ, LabView, Diadem), automotive CAN devices, and others.
• Configure data acquisition systems and assist with set up for battery testing (cell, module, and pack levels).
• Apply strain gauges and complete custom wiring for load measurements unique to specific project needs.
• Working individually and within a team environment to determine best test methodologies and document test execution.
• Calibrate, maintain, and repair instrumentation equipment and transducers.
• Troubleshoot instrumentation and other electronic systems.
• Circuit design, bread boarding, and interpreting electrical/electronic schematics.
• Build cable assemblies that interface with various equipment.
• Serve as a lead technician in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Support consultant engineers by developing and creating custom test setups.
• Specify and evaluate new lab test equipment required for conducting existing and new test specifications.
• Build basic electronics equipment used to conduct testing and to interconnect various pieces of hardware.
• Specifying and evaluating new lab test equipment required for conducting existing and new test specifications.
• Build basic electronics equipment used to conduct testing and to interconnect various pieces of hardware.
• Support consultant engineers by developing and creating custom test setups.
• Build basic electronics equipment used to conduct testing and to interconnect various pieces of hardware.
• Support consultant engineers by developing and creating custom test setups.
• Build basic electronics equipment used to conduct testing and to interconnect various pieces of hardware.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of instrumented testing experience or a combination of 1 year of instrumentation experience and relevant education in electronics.
• A working knowledge of test processes and following test standards.
• Familiarity with data acquisition, troubleshooting equipment (O-scope, DVM, etc.), and typical sensors (pressure transducers, accelerometers, load cells, potentiometers, etc.).
• Familiarity with instrumentation, system frequency response, data acquisition techniques, and digital and analog filtering techniques.
• The ability to apply experience in data acquisition and test systems to achieve unique project goals through creativity and critical problem-solving.
• Familiarity with equipment calibrations and associated procedures.
• Excellent soldering ability and good electronic circuit design techniques.
• Knowledge and interest in automotive systems and electronic devices.
• Excellent verbal communications skills and a demonstrated dedication to quality and accuracy.
• Demonstrated understanding of interfacing electronics with PC based computers.
• Ability to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams.

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