Product Verification & Validation Engineer – Test Engineer

This is a contract position.

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

This person will work with a cross-functional design team, particularly in power electronics to determine testing requirements for our client's Solutions products.

This person will perform, with some assistance, test procedures, motor characterization and reports.

This person will perform tasks with one-on-one supervision to meet quality, delivery and cost goals. This position requires technical judgment and independent thinking to solve problems and complete assigned projects.

• Gather and format test requirements from internal and external customers with assistance from others. Review and provide proper feedback about the requirements.
• Perform and oversee, with assistance, the performance of power electronic Product Verification and Validation testing performed internally or externally.
• Maintain accurate and up to date documentation of testing results and schedule progress. Communicate results and schedule progress to internal and external customers.
• Employ troubleshooting and debugging strategies; determine root cause with support from others and provide support in troubleshooting.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with internal and external customers.
• Work closely with other project team members as needed to ensure the testing is performed as specified in the product specifications.
• Travel as needed to accomplish the tasks required of this position, including meeting with customers to generate and/or revise concepts and product requirements.
• Support other needs of the department as needed.

Education:

Minimum B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ag Engineering, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited engineering program.

• Understanding of the basics of embedded controllers
• Understanding of safe higher voltage practices
• Understanding of motor control and system testing
• Understanding of the basics of design validation
• Good written and verbal communications skills (English)
• Good organization skills (multi-tasking)
• Experience with product development
• Understanding of motor control software (PU2)
• Experience with dynos
• Experience with fixture design
• Experience with development and debugging tools (e.g. oscilloscopes, multi-meters, etc.)
• Experience with microcontroller peripherals and systems (e.g. PWM outputs, boot loaders, A/D converters, serial and parallel interfaces, etc.)
• Experience with communication networks (e.g. CAN, Ethernet, RS-232/485, etc.)
• Experience with communication protocols (e.g. J1939, ISO
  11783, TCP/IP, etc.)

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