Systems Test Engineer

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Job Title: Systems Test Engineer – Product Test Engineering
Job Type: Direct Hire
Location: US-CA-Carlsbad (100% on site)
Pay Range: $110k – $150k

Overview: We are seeking a new Systems Test Engineer! This fast-paced Product Test Engineering team crafts test solutions for vertically integrated products and services. You will test and support encrypted communications systems including Layer 2 and Layer 3 In-line Network Encryptors, and embedded cryptographic devices. Projects support lab design verification, integration, and characterization and factory production tests.

Responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding of products needing tests, including specifications, designs, parts, and functions.
• Collaborate with product design teams and establish relationships to influence product, hardware, and software designs to support robust and efficient testing solutions.
• Work with product design, quality, and operations teams to develop and maintain Systems Engineering documents for product testing including Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM), Test Requirements Database, and Verification and Validation planning and execution.
• Lead Test Process System Requirements Reviews (SRR) and Design Reviews (PDR/CDR).
• Prepare Test Plans, Procedures, and customer needs to guide the effort to develop and build custom test hardware and automation using company and industry standards.
• Shepherd test system deployment from hardware/software integration to use in design verification to full-rate production. Train partners in its use across the globe.
• Champion feedback from key players to improve product designs, deployed test systems, and test processes.
• Prepare engineering trade studies and use problem solving to support decision making to adapt to uncertainty, risks, and opportunities.
• Present creative ideas, informative status updates, thoughtful trade-offs, constructive reviews, and improved process implementations to Program Management and Leadership.

Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of proven experience developing testable products, supporting them across the product lifecycle, and working with new development and sustainment of manual to fully automated product test systems in a production environment.
• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Solid understanding of both the technical and process aspects of product design and able to evaluate products using documents describing their design and function.
• Domain expert influencing teams to use design-for-test (DFT) strategies, methods, and tools for validation of product function, performance, and reliability.
• Background in crafting test requirements, test plans, test cases and methodologies, and test documentation for manufacturing that guide system development.
• Experience improving technical design documentation including specifications, schematics, and wire lists through redlining and collaboration with designers.
• Ability to view and quickly comprehend industry standard computer languages to support collaboration with software automation engineers.
• Ready to use a variety of lab equipment like oscilloscopes, power supplies, and boundary scan to evaluate and help fix systems.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Up to 10% travel.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Gravity IT Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.