Staff Engineer, Test Manufacturing

Summary

The Staff Engineer, Test Manufacturing accepts, transfers, installs, improves and maintains automatic test equipment and test programs that are used for product testing and design verification. They also may support the test development of the test equipment and processes to ensure robust and high quality test solutions and final products are realized.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of production test strategies based on product design specification.
• Lead the development of test plans and requirements for customer products including both hardware and software elements.
• Lead the procurement, qualification, and installation support for manufacturing across the factory.
• Be accountable for the test process optimization with a focus on productivity improvements to cycle time and yield across a factory serving multiple customers.
• Provide project leadership, including management of (and communication with) team members, suppliers for comprehensive test deployments including structural, functional, system, stress and final test applications at the factory level.
• Support sales process by providing support to the quoting process.
• Work with design to enhance solution with feedback from product testability, test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, firmware/diagnostics and user experience.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.
• Lead and drive complex problems related to product yield or test performance.
• Subject Matter Expert in the company for specific areas of Structural or Functional/System/Stress. Industry recognized expert in a specific test domain.
• Provide company-wide test strategy support including training, capital investment, aged equipment rotation, supplier relationship management and industry equipment evaluation for the purpose of capital planning.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Refer to technical skills below.

Physical Demands

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment. Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required. Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

7 to 10 years

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational Requirements may vary by Geography.