Senior Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test Systems

Senior Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test Systems

Performance Drone Works (PDW) is building the next generation of tactical robotic systems used across defense, national security, and public safety missions. We are building a new center of engineering excellence to design our new category of tactical robotic systems and the industrial capacity to deliver them, bringing decisive airpower into the hands of every operator. We are not here to make promises;

we are here to deliver real systems with real capabilities for real missions. You will join a team of operators, engineers, and builders who solve hard problems with humility and focus. We design and produce multi-mission aerial systems that operators trust to perform in real-world conditions, reliably, repeatedly, and  approach is grounded in operator-centered design, rapid iteration from field use, and U.S.

-based manufacturing. Weoperateby a clear set of values:
Mission First, Aim Farther, Own It, Win Together. This is how we build advantage and how we help protect our service members, our communities, and our country.

Now,we’reentering a new phase of growth and are looking for a skilled Senior Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test Systems to join our team, contributing to the next wave of system and tool development for our upcoming product lines.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role inassistingin architectural design, parts selection, validation test design, overseeing hardware and software

New Product Introduction enabling reliable, high-volume deployment forouradvanced sUAS systems.

• The ideal candidate will thrive working in an innovative and fast-paced environment, able toproblem-solve dynamically, deliver and sustain thoughtfully designed and highly adaptableandscalablesystems.
• Partner with Hardware and Manufacturing Engineering to architect, design, and deploy electrical test systems for PCBAs, wiring harnesses, and subsystem-level validation in both internal production and contract manufacturing (CM) environments.
• Own the full lifecycle of test fixtures, including design, fabrication, validation, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Develop manufacturing test specification requirements,testing criteria, plans, and test fixtures for design verification and validation byproductionandcontract manufacturing.
• Perform hardware design tasks such as architecture design,component selection, schematic capture, schematic review, PCBA layout, PCBA layout review, and coordination of fabrication and assembly with contract manufacturers.
• Support emplacement,qualification,usage, technicalsupportand repair of PCBA test fixtures for Production and contract manufacturers.
• Support facilitation of outside processes for PCBAmanufacturing processes including conformal coating and other forms of secondary processing.
• Support of PCBA part availability risk identification and mitigation, partobsolesceand piece-part riskpurchasingprogram with Procurement Team.
• Work directly with the Manufacturing Team on the validation of PCBA release packages,quoting with contract manufacturers,identifying part substitutions, working with
  
  Contract
  
  Manufacturers on the quality program for those PCBAs and ensuring a stable PCBA manufacturing pipeline at the Contract
  
  Manufacturer level.
• Analyze production data to drive yield improvements,identify failure trends, and implement corrective actions to improve test system performance and reliability.
• Contribute to the development and scaling of internal hardware quality systems and test infrastructure as production volume increases.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives tooptimizetest systems for throughput, reliability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

• Bachelor’sin Electrical Engineeringorrelated fieldand5+yearsofexperience designing electrical testsystemsforproductioncontract manufacturing environments.
• Strong experience with electronic test hardware design, including embedded systems.
• Experience developing,releasing and implementingelectronictestsolutionsand processes including bed-of-nails, flying probe,and in-circuit test.
• Experience with microcontrollers and their bootstrapping processes…