Electronics Lab Technician

Job Title

Onsite with flexibility to travel within Palo Alto, Hayward & San Jose labs Schedule and

Hours:

M-F 8-5 (1 hour non-billable lunch) MUST PASS MVR CHECK

Top Skills/Responsibilities:

• Operate software user interfaces to exercise test equipment during hardware bring up.
• Own calibration and mechanical setup of thermal and vibration chambers.
• Troubleshoot, root cause, and document DUT, test equipment, and harness failures.
• Candidate should be able to understand a simple control vs ramp rate equation to determine the time needed for the ramp profile.
• Adequately read and explain basic functions of digital components on a schematic.
• Understand EVT, DVT, and PVT processes and Tester validation
• Knowledge dealing with the basic operation of the latest digital design schematics.
• Chamber and chiller hands-on experience and how setups could be assembled.
• Technical breadth regarding development cycles and be able to articulate their past engineering tasks and contributions.
• Hands-on experience to perform tests.
• Knowledge and operational expertise dealing with Automated test equipment and be able to convey how they would document test results.
• Experience dealing with test chambers

In this role, you'll be part of the team responsible for reliability and manufacturing testing of
*** and Volkdwagen Group Technologies electrical hardware including Level 3+ ADAS, telematics, infotainment, battery management, and zonal Electronic Control Units (ECUs). Our team builds custom automated test solutions that include internal-facing software, low-level firmware, data management platforms, and custom electromechanical hardware. These solutions get deployed internally, at external labs, and contract manufacturing facilities. You'll be a key technical part of the team and will work with the engineering leads to conduct reliability and manufacturing testing, review and report test data, build first articles, redline schematics, and troubleshoot issues.

Responsibilities:

• Operate software user interfaces to exercise test equipment during hardware bring up.
• Validate systems functionality by using standard lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies and digital multimeters.
• Own calibration and mechanical setup of thermal and vibration chambers.
• Troubleshoot, root cause, and document DUT, test equipment, and harness failures.
• Perform circuit board electronic modifications such as component rework, soldering/de-soldering of electronic components, etc.
• Support commissioning of new systems.

Qualifications:

• Technical degree or relevant experience in electronics testing.
• Able to read electrical schematics, drawings, and manufacturers' product data sheets.
• 5+ years of experience building automated test equipment (ATE) or industrial automation systems.
• Experience using power tools.
• Experience with soldering and circuit board re-work.
• Experience with electrical testing using laboratory tools.
• Ability to use Client and Google productivity applications: spreadsheets, word processing, presentation
• Able to move/lift test boxes and instrumentation.
• Hands-on approach: proactively identifies and fills in gaps where needed.