Staff Engineer, Test Development

Req ID: 123676 
Remote Position: No
Region: Americas 
Country: United States 
State/Province: Texas 
City:  Richardson 

General Overview

Functional Area:  Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream:  Test Engineering Development (TED)
Role:  Staff Engineer (SEN)
Job Title:  Staff Engineer, Test Development
Job Code:  SEN-ENG-TED
Job Level:  Level 10
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

The Senior Staff Engineer - Test Development designs, develops and implements automatic test equipment and test programs for product testing and design verification, which ensure robust and high quality assembled products in manufacturing.

A Test Development Engineer may specialize in many areas but are generally categorized into Structural (verification of an assembly process by testing each of its smaller elements and the interconnects) and Functional Testing (verification that a design will perform its main purpose and meet specific performance requirements).  
Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service and teams.  

Will report directly to North American regional test development center of excellence, and align with services leadership team to deploy tools and processes inline with standards and best practices within the larger organization. 
 

Detailed Description

Activities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Develops and executes assembly/test strategy for new products including design for manufacture and test analysis and feedback.
• Executes assembly / test bringup for new products
• Lead the development and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects, involving multiple domains and participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Involvement in all areas of the test development process, including procurement, software development, hardware integration, system integration, qualification and installation support for manufacturing.
• Implements production systems to ensure maximum utilization of critical resources, maximum throughput, minimum cost and capacity growth.
• Review and interpret customer requirements/specifications and may act as primary customer contact.  
• Analyze tradeoffs in complex systems and recommend solutions.  Develop deployment strategies and plans.
• Integrate tools and code developed by other internal groups or external customers.
• Lead the deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Debug of solutions using design of experiments, tools, and failure analysis methodologies.
• Project leadership, including management of (and communication with) team members, suppliers and customers both internal & external.
• Collaborate with a highly experienced engineering team to review and provide input on development designs and test strategies.
• Work with regional leadership to establish short term and long term investment and skills development strategies and business cases for local organization
• Execute all validation/qualification requirements by applying statistical and common industry methods
• Stabilizing Test Solutions for manufacturing by working with process teams focusing on cycle time and yield optimization.
• Apply a continuous improvement mindset to all aspects of the development process.
• Some responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.)

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Bachelor of Applied Science or Engineering in Computer, Electrical, Software, or Computer Science
• Engineering Foundation Competencies
• Knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards
• Knowledge and understanding of systems and printed circuit board manufacturing processes and equipment
• Knowledge of industry and quality standards
• Ability to evaluate, diagnose and troubleshoot problems
• Knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies
• Knowledge of industry and quality standards for incoming materials
• Ability to evaluate materials, gather and analyze data and determine root cause of problems
• Knowledge of testing software, processes and