Production Test Engineer

About the Team

This role is part of the team building PI’s manufacturing and hardware-test infrastructure. It will collaborate deeply with hardware engineering, runtime, embedded software, infrastructure, inventory, πBuild, and πFab.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and development of PI’s manufacturing software platform.
• Build technician-friendly, step-by-step workflows for assembly, flashing, provisioning, calibration, and final test.
• Convert engineering scripts and manual procedures into versioned, repeatable manufacturing operations.
• Develop local station software that securely exposes allowlisted hardware capabilities to hosted manufacturing workflows.
• Design workflow primitives for automated steps, operator instructions, retries, timeouts, cancellation, resumability, and acceptance criteria.
• Build reliable mechanisms for downloading, caching, verifying, and updating firmware and manufacturing binaries.
• Integrate manufacturing workflows with inventory systems to register hardware, assign identities, and record required metadata.
• Establish traceability for operators, stations, devices, software versions, step results, durations, and captured test artifacts.
• Build observability that allows engineers to inspect production progress and diagnose failures remotely.
• Design systems that continue operating through temporary network failures and synchronize results when connectivity returns.
• Implement safe authentication, authorization, and privilege boundaries for software that controls local hardware.
• Develop automated tests for workflow behavior and hardware-independent failure handling.
• Debug problems across cloud services, local Linux stations, networks, embedded devices, and test equipment.
• Partner with manufacturing and hardware engineers to define acceptance criteria and automate quality checks.
• Define and track manufacturing-software KPIs such as station availability, workflow completion rate, first-pass yield, retry rate, and failure category.
• Establish technical standards that allow new manufacturing workflows and hardware products to share a common platform without becoming tightly coupled.