Staff Manufacturing Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Work with ODM partners to define and execute the manufacturing test strategy for L6 board-level production.
• Develop and review test plans covering:
• In-Circuit Test (ICT)
• Making Defect Analyzer (MDA)
• Board Functional Test
• Diagnostics coverage requirements
• Manufacturing line test flow
• Failure detection and containment strategy
• Ensure test plans provide appropriate coverage for board-level defects, assembly issues, component-level failures, and functional performance requirements.
• Partner with hardware engineering, design validation, diagnostics, operations, quality, and ODM teams to align manufacturing test coverage with product risk areas.
• Define requirements for board-level test stations, fixtures, test software, diagnostic content, and production test infrastructure.
• Support the development, validation, and release of board functional tests into the ODM manufacturing environment.
• Review ICT and MDA coverage reports and drive improvements to ensure adequate manufacturing defect detection.
• Define pass/fail criteria, test limits, data collection requirements, retest rules, and failure handling processes.
• Support bring-up, debug, and qualification of manufacturing test processes during NPI and production ramp.
• Support development and deployment of L10 system-level manufacturing test processes.
• Port board functional tests into the L10 manufacturing environment where appropriate.
• Ensure L10 test coverage validates system-level integration, board functionality, firmware readiness, thermal behavior, power behavior, I/O functionality, and platform health.
• Work with ODM and internal engineering teams to ensure test execution is scalable, repeatable, and suitable for high-volume server production.
• Specify manufacturing line requirements for test station configuration, test sequencing, data capture, networking, tooling, and operator workflow.
• Define requirements for test fixtures, cabling, adapters, load boards, debug interfaces, power delivery, signal access, and fixture maintenance.
• Ensure fixtures and test stations meet manufacturing requirements for reliability, repeatability, safety, ease of use, throughput, and serviceability.
• Drive fixture validation, correlation, preventive maintenance planning, and readiness for production ramp.

Quality Planning, Yield, and Continuous Improvement

• Create and maintain an overall manufacturing quality plan focused on yield, defect containment, test coverage, and production readiness.
• Monitor manufacturing test yield, first-pass yield, failure pareto trends, retest rates, false failures, and escape risks.
• Lead technical investigations into manufacturing test failures, quality excursions, and yield loss.
• Drive structured root cause analysis and corrective action with ODM partners and internal stakeholders.
• Define and track corrective actions, containment plans, and long-term process improvements.
• Establish best practices for test development, test deployment, fixture readiness, failure analysis, data review, and manufacturing quality control.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary technical interface between internal teams and ODM manufacturing test teams.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering, diagnostics, firmware, software, quality, supply chain, and operations teams.
• Support NPI builds, pilot builds, production ramp, and sustaining manufacturing activities.
• Communicate test readiness, risks, yield issues, corrective actions, and manufacturing quality status to program stakeholders.
• Travel to ODM manufacturing sites as needed to support build readiness, test deployment, debug, and ramp activities.

DIFFERENTIATORS

• 8+ years of experience in manufacturing test engineering, hardware test engineering, or production test development.
• Experience supporting high-volume server manufacturing or similar complex compute, networking, storage, or data center hardware products.
• Strong understanding of board-level manufacturing test processes, including:
• In-Circuit Test (ICT)
• Making Defect Analyzer (MDA)
• Board Functional Test
• Diagnostics test execution
• Manufacturing defect detection
• Experience working directly with ODM, CM, or JDM manufacturing partners.
• Hands-on experience with Linux-based test environments, including test execution, scripting, log collection, and failure triage.
• Familiarity with server hardware architecture, including CPUs, memory, storage, networking, BMCs, firmware, power subsystems, and high-speed interfaces.
• Experience defining test fixture requirements and supporting fixture bring-up, validation, and production readiness.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing quality metrics, including first-pass yield, retest rate, defect paretos, failure analysis, and corrective action.
• Demonstrated ability to drive root cause analysis and corrective action across engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Ability to review test logs, identify failure signatures, isolate issues, and determine whether failures are related to hardware, firmware, software, test process, or fixture design.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical issues, risks, and action plans.