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About the role

We are the hardware engineering group that designs and implements embedded systems (meters) for collecting TV tuning and TV viewing data. Our team’s responsibilities include electrical schematic design, circuit board layout, and enclosure mechanical design. We use contract manufacturers to build prototypes and production meters. Typical meter designs consist of a single main board with a dozen or more integrated circuits (BGA, QFP, TDFN, SOT, etc) and related passive components. Our designs range in size from rack mount equipment to devices as small as a wrist watch. We design and create automated manufacturing test systems that incorporate various instruments such as optical detectors, power supplies, DVMs, RF generators, and frequency converters. These test systems are used to validate newly manufactured equipment.

Key Responsibilities

The test engineer’s role involves planning, design, documenting and assembling the manufacturing test equipment that our contract manufacturers use to validate the assembly and quality of our meters.

Role Requirements

• Evaluating embedded electronic systems designs for testability.

• Reviewing documentation, specification sheets, and data sheets to ensure they are accurate and descriptive of the electronic systems being tested.

• Developing and communicating test plans for embedded systems

• Designing, building and documenting testing apparatus

• Assisting the design and development engineers with building and modifying prototypes

• Writing test reports explaining equipment, procedures, and results.

• Conducting tests at various stages of development

• Maintaining test environments

• Automate relevant test procedures

• Driving root cause analysis efforts through experimentation and collaboration

• Remote monitoring and support of test stations deployed at our contract manufacturers facilities in the Philippines. Occasional flexibility in working hours will be required in order to support manufacturing located in the Philippines.

Key Skills

• Expert at reading electrical schematics

• Expert at independently using test equipment to analyze the performance of embedded systems. (such as functional testing, power supply testing, and RF testing)

• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, voltmeters, spectrum analyzers, programmable power supplies.

• Expert knowledge of LabVIEW systems software for engineering test, measurement & control

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Working knowledge of Git version control

• Basic soldering skills

• Basic understanding of Product Lifecycle Management tools

• Basic scripting skills

• User level experience with Linux command line

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years relevant experience

• 3+ minimum years experience with LabVIEW

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