Job Description

Job Description Summary

This associate test engineer will accept a role in providing support for issues involving production test equipment. The responsibilities are ultimately focused on minimizing field failures and maintaining product quality. There will be frequent opportunities to effectively interface with design, process, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering to solve product issues and production problems.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the investigation on product failures by identifying the root cause, recommending actions, validating results, and driving corrective action.   
• Document trending failures and other product-related problems.
• Create troubleshooting and product debug guides.
• Create test equipment operation instructions.
• Assist with other responsibilities and tasks, when needed.
• Create and enforce qualification standards across multiple product lines and functional departments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires a rigorous engineering design-based methodology combined with multi-disciplinary engineering skills
• Mechanical and electrical hardware debugging skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and fully understand how a product works by using existing documentation and tools.
• Ability to work with and debug basic PC issues.
• Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing.

Minimum education and work experience required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related engineering discipline.
• 0-2 years of electrical product engineering experience, preferably with commercial embedded systems.
• Familiarity with electrical, mechanical, and software engineering concepts.

Additional Job Description

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.