Senior Staff Manufacturing Test Engineer
| Company | Boston Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Location | Waltham, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent and 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals.
- Solid working knowledge of basic electrical equipment, including digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, and power supplies.
- Experience in selecting COTS or designing custom testing hardware based on engineering/manufacturing test requirements.
- Experience deploying and supporting test systems at domestic and international Contract Manufacturing sites.
- Test software development using programming languages such as Python in both Windows and Linux environments.
- Able to read electrical schematics and apply sound electrical/electronics fundamental knowledge to analyze designs.
- Comfortable with analog and digital test and debug techniques for medium to high complexity systems.
- Self-motivated and able to work in an ambiguous environment with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Provide design for test (DFT) recommendations for test coverage, fault isolation capability, and PCBA failure trends.
- Understand supplier capabilities for in-circuit test (ICT) and provide design support to maximize test coverage and implementation.
- Manage ODM/JDM functional test capacity, expansion planning, and execution.
- Document test procedures, fixtures, configurations, and best practices.
- Deliver turnkey test solutions for electromechanical parts and assemblies of new robots or sustaining tests for existing robots.
- Provide project management and design support for outsourced test development.
- Analyze test results and provide feedback to improve product quality and testing processes.
- Perform hands-on and data-driven root cause analysis of electromechanical subsystems utilizing structured problem solving methodologies.
- Support station duplication and deployments for repair and service teams.
- Train both internal and external manufacturing in the use and support of production test equipment, test programs, and debug processes.
- Mentor other team engineers and technicians.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout software using Altium or equivalent.
- Ability to design and lay out test interface PCBAs.
- Knowledge of circuit board manufacturing DfX and best practices.
- Deep knowledge of PCBAs designs with high-speed digital interfaces (e.g. MIPI, GMSL, PCIe, 10Gbase-T, 1000base-T1, USB3).
- Experience designing moderate complexity electro-mechanical structures to be used in a production or customer-facing environment in CAD (Catia, NX, Solidworks, etc.).
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Comfortable interpreting and/or writing C++ code.
- Experience with lean manufacturing and/or six sigma.
- Familiarity with using a PLM (e.g. Arena).