System Validation & Automation Engineer III (Senior)

Overview

Senior engineering role in System Validation and Automation at Generac, focused on design verification, reliability testing, test instrumentation and production test development for electrical hardware products.

What you'll do

• Create and execute engineering design verification test plans.
• Prepare and execute reliability test plans to increase confidence in warranty and service life targets.
• Conduct Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALT) and Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) to expose device vulnerabilities and improve designs.
• Perform engineering assessments of test and verification activities against real-world field applications.
• Design and build test instrumentation systems to standardize and automate experiments and data capture of many concurrent DUTs.
• Conduct and review Gage repeatability and reproducibility analyses, yield reports and production test issue resolution.
• Assist with root causing factory issues to isolate variables and find system or component level issues.
• Create PFMEAs and assess and trade off test coverage to conceptualize production test suites for high volume mass production test.
• Execute cost-benefit analyses and risk assessments to optimize production test decisions and coverage.
• Document and report tests completed.
• Analyze experimentation results and engineering reports from others to issue approval or rejection.
• Identify component alternates and create test plans to validate substitutions to reduce BOM cost or mitigate supply chain issues.
• Perform environmental, ESD, surge, EFT and compliance testing of new and existing products.
• Research, identify and execute applicable UL, CSA, IEC or other specifications relevant to product development.
• Prototype new circuits before inclusion into production programs.
• Create production test plans, test scripts and production test fixtures.
• Collaborate with teammates to improve and guide all test and verification activities (reports, methods, procedures, designs, fixtures) and propose ideas.
• Provide recommendations on design integrity and issue recommendations to proceed to mass production.
• Identify and escalate major design risk factors; identify, validate and propose alternate suggestions with concern for cross-functional impact (feature set, cost targets, design scope, etc.).
• Design printed circuit boards to prototype new circuits, create fixtures, development tools or other uses.

What you'll need

• Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics (or similar).
• 5+ years industry experience in electrical hardware product development with emphasis on consumer electronics.
• Must have been involved with full product development and high volume production design concept, circuit design, multiple stages of prototype development and test, entry into manufacturing, and test fixtures; identified and resolved design issues resulting in more reliable product and easier production; identified and resolved field failures and worked improvements back into the design.
• Experience in hardware design, validation and test execution.
• Proven experience in schematic design and review, and printed circuit board review.
• Knowledge of PCB layout fundamentals.
• Hardware debugging and root cause analysis.
• Analog and high-speed digital circuit analysis.
• Familiarity with oscilloscope, DAQ, DMM, thermal chamber, spectrum analyzer, VNA among other lab equipment.
• Understanding of testing principles and impact on results.
• Solder and rework fine pitch electronic SMT components including 0201, XDFN, TSOT.
• Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes.
• Understanding of full product design principles, thermal transfer, etc. and impact on electronics.
• Knowledge of embedded systems, architecture, operating states, and optimizations.
• Strong industry awareness of critical parts manufacturers.

Nice to have

• Background in PCB layout including optimization of power distribution networks, stack-up design, high-speed interfaces and high voltage systems.
• Experience in low power, IoT sensor design.
• CPU architectures, 8 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit experience.
• Memory architectures, eMMC, DDR3, DDR4 etc.
• Embedded Linux and C++ development; ability to write C++ for MCU applications.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.