Test Technician IV - Embedded Computers Hudson, NH

Test Technician IV - Embedded Computers

Location:

Hudson, New Hampshire, United States

The Senior Test Technician is responsible for performing troubleshooting, high‑level debug, and testing of printed circuit boards to validate product performance under various conditions, ensuring compliance with MIL‑STD‑810, DO‑160, and customer specifications. This role involves operating, analyzing, and diagnosing issues on module‑level circuit boards. The role will require the use of environmental test equipment, maintaining detailed documentation, and supporting engineering teams to deliver reliable, high‑quality products.

• Maintain and calibrate test equipment to ensure reliability.
• Conduct test, diagnostics, and debug of complex circuit boards according to specifications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment or test setup issues.
• Record, analyze, and report test results, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to refine test procedures, support product design improvements, and prototype/characterize new products.
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols and compliance with relevant standards.
• Test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, bus analyzers, and Linux‑based utilities.
• Support team approach circuit analyzing and debugging failures from RMA’s and WIP.
• Communicate goals and priorities with management to maintain deadlines.
• Cross‑train new employees to support as back‑up for debug on their projects.
• Work from schematics, work instructions, drawings, and operating procedures.
• Other responsibilities as directed and necessary for the business.

• Associate degree in electronics, engineering technology, or a related field in electrical engineering or similar.
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience including digital and analog electronics testing and debugging at the component level.
• Experience operating test systems and strong analytical abilities.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with HEX and binary and ability to translate between the two.
• Experience with multi‑power PCBA circuitry.
• Experience with temperature‑related debug efforts, electronic circuit analysis, and sinusoidal electronic signal analysis.
• Experience with state machines/power stages via field‑programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
• Experience with debug communication utilizing various tracing methods.
• Experience using lab test equipment.
• Experience reading circuit schematic drawings and using diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes and DMMs.
• Experience with CAD‑based programs such as Cadence and Allegro; must be able to utilize signal names for troubleshooting.
• Following test procedures and independently diagnosing and solving hardware‑related problems in a timely manner.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or otherwise eligible for required authorizations per U.S. export regulations.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or electronics.

• Constantly move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue; must be able to lift or move objects weighing up to 40 lbs.
• Constant movement and use of limbs; must be able to sit, twist, work under a microscope for long periods, stand, walk, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, climb, and grip as required daily.
• Frequently observe, detect, discern, and convey information; must have near, far, color vision acuity, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina; must be able to safely control surgical razor blades and small hand tools used to manipulate a tuning stub under a microscope; may require frequent overtime work.

• $50,600.00 – $ annually for in‑office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees.
• $56,700.00 – $ annually for in‑office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA.
• $59,700.00 – $ annually for in‑office or hybrid employees in NJ.

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