Senior Video Test Engineer

Senior Video Test Engineer

Broadata Communications, Inc. (BCI) – Torrance, CA On-site

Broadata Communications, Inc. (BCI) is a privately held California-based corporation specializing in the development of market-driven products for the transmission of digital multimedia over fiber. Our clients include world leaders across entertainment, broadcast, medical, professional audio/video, house of worship, education, government, military, and transportation sectors. We are ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 certified, committed to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

We are seeking a hands‑on, detail-oriented Senior Video Test Engineer to lead product‑level and system‑level validation and verification activities for BCI’s high‑performance digital multimedia products. The role focuses on developing senior‑level test strategies, executing formal V&V testing, troubleshooting complex hardware, firmware, and software issues, improving test processes, and supporting product release, sustaining engineering, customer issue investigation, and regulatory compliance activities.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with high‑speed video interfaces, medical or professional AV products, embedded systems, test automation, root‑cause analysis, and formal engineering documentation. This position requires working independently, mentoring junior engineers, driving test execution with minimal supervision, and communicating technical findings clearly to engineering, management, customers, and external partners.

This is a hands‑on role based in Torrance, CA; remote or hybrid positions are not accepted. We offer a fast‑paced, high‑impact environment with opportunities for professional growth erans welcome!

• Lead verification, validation, troubleshooting, and testing activities for the release and maintenance of BCI and third‑party hardware, firmware, and software.
• Develop product‑level and system‑level V&V strategies, test plans, protocols, reports, and acceptance criteria for new products, sustaining products, engineering changes, EOL component replacement, and customer‑driven updates.
• Design, develop, and execute formal validation and verification testing, including interoperability, video performance, audio performance, environmental, accelerated life cycle, regression, reliability, and safety‑related testing pursuant to applicable compliance requirements, including IEC 60601 validation.
• Lead high‑speed video interface testing and troubleshooting for HDMI, Display Port, DVI, SDI, SDVoE, composite video, streaming video, color space, timing, synchronization, EDID, HDCP, and 4K60 video systems.
• Develop and improve automated test systems, scripts, fixtures, test jigs, demo systems, and lab setups to increase test coverage, repeatability, and efficiency.
• Perform advanced failure analysis by reviewing failure reports, reproducing complex failure modes, designing experiments, collecting objective data, and systematically localizing root cause across hardware, firmware, software, signal integrity, power, thermal, and interoperability domains.
• Support customer RMA investigations, field issue analysis, failure reproduction, corrective action verification, and engineering documentation for internal and external communication.
• Review firmware and system behavior during testing, including watchdog behavior, event logging, task scheduler operation, status polling, video lock status, thermal status, link recovery, reboot/recovery behavior, and long‑duration stability.
• Generate and review accurate and thorough technical documentation, including firmware/software requirements, design specifications, test protocols, test reports, test methods, process documents, user manuals, datasheets, and engineering change documentation.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior test engineers and technicians on test setup, debugging methodology, documentation quality, and formal V&V execution.
• Work cross‑functionally with hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, quality, manufacturing, and external ODM/vendor teams to resolve issues and support product release schedules.
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