Test Technician IV - Embedded Computers

Job Summary:

The Senior Test Technician is responsible for performing troubleshooting, high level debug and testing of printed circuit boards to validate product performance under various conditions, ensuring compliance with MIL-STD-810, DO-160, and customer specifications. This role involves operating, analyzing, and diagnosing issues on module level circuit boards. The role will require the use of environmental test equipment, maintaining detailed documentation, and supporting engineering teams to deliver reliable, high-quality products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain and calibrate test equipment to ensure reliability.
• Conduct test, diagnostics, and debug of complex circuit boards according to specifications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment or test setup issues.
• Record, analyze, and report test results, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to refine test procedures, support product design improvements, and prototype/characterize new products.
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols and compliance with relevant standards.
• Test equipment such as Oscilloscopes / DMM’s (Digital Multimeters) / Bus Analyzers / Linux Based Utilities.
• Support Team approach circuit analyzing and debugging failures from RMA’s and WIP.
• Communicate goals and priorities with management to maintain deadlines.
• Cross train new employees to support as back-up for debug on their projects.
• Work from schematics, work instructions, drawings, and operating procedures.
• Other responsibilities as directed and necessary for the business.

Required Qualifications:

• Ideally Associate degree in electronics, engineering technology, or a related fields in electrical engineering or similar.
• Ideally a minimum of 5 years of related work experience including digital and analog electronics testing and debugging at the component level.
• Experience in operating test systems, and strong analytical abilities.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with HEX and Binary and the ability to translate back and forth between the two.
• Experience in multi power PCBA circuitry.
• Experience with temperature related debug efforts, electronic circuit analysis and sinusoidal electronic signal analysis.
• Experience with state machines/power stages via Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
• Experience with debug communication utilizing various tracing methods.
• Experience using lab test equipment.
• Experience reading circuit schematic drawings and use diagnostic tools such as Oscilloscopes and DMMs.
• Experience with CAD based programs such as Cadence and Allegro. Must be able to utilize signal names for troubleshooting.
• Experience following test procedures, and independently diagnose and solve hardware-related problems in a timely manner.
• This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or electronics

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:

• Constantly move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue.  Specific abilities required by the job include positioning oneself to lift or move objects weighing up to 40lbs.
• Constant movement and use of limbs. Specific abilities required by this job include prolonged sitting, twisting and working under a microscope for long periods of time will be required. Occasional Standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, climbing, and gripping is required daily.
• Frequently observe, detect, discern, and convey information. Specific abilities required by this job include near, far and color vision acuity, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina. Ability to safely control surgical razor blades and small hand tools used to manipulate tuning stub under a microscope. Specific abilities required by this job include the frequent requirement of overtime work.