Senior Electrical Test Engineer, Hardware Test Engineering
Key job responsibilities
- Work with hardware development, regulatory & compliance, program management, and other hardware test team members.
- Draw upon previous electrical test engineer experience, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems.
- Be open to new challenges, strong at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and a great team player.
- Drive continuous process improvement, and partner effectively with cross-functional teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.
A day in the life
Meet with cross-functional teams to comprehend the business needs for your project, review and provide feedback on requirements, and develop test plans to verify and validate adherence to said requirements.
Work with other Test Engineers, Hardware and Software developers regarding tools and techniques required for testing.
Develop test fixtures, test execution strategies, and test reports.
About the team
The Hardware Test Engineering team is accountable for testing any new prototype/pre-production hardware designs within Amazon's robotic solutions. They validate that any design meets their high standards for quality, efficiency, and most of all, safety.
Part of the larger "Systems Engineering and Evaluation" group. Work directly alongside test engineers from other disciplines (Mechanical Engineers, Systems Engineers, Software Developers) to build end-to-end test strategies for Robotic products.
The team is located in both BOS12 and BOS27, with lab spaces and test capabilities in both facilities. Occasional travel between office locations.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability
- 6+ years of technical engineering experience
- Experience building test automation frameworks and tools
- Experience developing test strategies and plans for complex hardware/software systems or systems of systems
- Experience using common electronics test equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, function generators, etc)
- Experience in leading large, cross functional projects
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Experience identifying and solving complex problems through data analysis
- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality
- Experience working with Linux
- Basic scripting experience in a high-level programming language such as Python, Matlab, or LabVIEW
- Experience with electric motors and motor test methodology
- Experience in circuit level debug to the component level.