Principal Test Engineer

Principal Test Engineer (12-month contract // Tempe, AZ):

Top 3 Required Skills:

1. Manufacturing Test Engineering and Test Application Development
2. LabVIEW, Test Stand, and test instrument integration
3. Development of manufacturing test requirements and methodologies

Education Required: Bachelor’s in Engineering or Engineering Technology (Electrical preferred, EE/ECE or EET degrees)

Years’ Experience Required: 7 years of experience developing and implementing manufacturing test systems

Duties:

• Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment.
• Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices. Provides test area with parameters for sample testing and specifies tests to be performed.
• Compiles data and defines changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements.
• Responsible for testing all customer samples and for special tests that cannot be performed in the test area.

Required Skills:

• Manufacturing Test Engineering and Test Application Development
• LabVIEW, TestStand, MATLAB, and instrument integration
• Test methodology development, measurement system analysis (MSA), Gauge R&R, and uncertainty analysis
• Development of manufacturing test limits, guard bands, and validation strategies
• Requirements definition, URS/SRS development, verification, and validation
• Statistical analysis of measurement variation, repeatability, reproducibility, and yield performance
• Experience translating R&D laboratory measurement methods into robust high-volume manufacturing test solutions

Preferred Domain Expertise:

• LED emitter characterization and optical measurement systems
• Spectroscopy and spectrometer integration
• Optical sensor technologies and photonics-based measurement systems
• Understanding of factors affecting optical measurements, including temperature, drive current, fixturing, alignment, and environmental conditions