Automated Hardware Test Engineer

Company: Insight Global
Location: Naperville
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

Title: Automated Hardware Test Engineer
Location: Naperville, IL
Duration: Permanent
Salary: 75k-100k
Relocation: Yes
Sponsorship: No

Required Skillset:
Associates Degree in Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
Experience in setting up automated test processes
Experience with writing embedded software for microcontrollers
Experience with Embedded development (C, Python, Labview, etc)
Knowledge/understanding in product development including schematic design
Experience Statistical analysis
Develop & Create & scripting Test plans

Preferred Skillset:
Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or Computer Science
Experience with capacitive touch for various styles of user interfaces
Understanding of Flexible printed circuit technologies
Experience with Altium Designer
Experience with Cypress, Texas Instruments, or Microchip/Atmel IDE
Experience with Circuit Debug Tools (Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, Ardvark, etc.)
Knowledge or statistics and principles of six sigma
Local to Chicagoland area

Day to Day:
Insight Global is seeking a motivated and self-driven Automated Hardware Test Engineer to join our team in Naperville, IL. This role is responsible for designing and developing test process for various hardware and electronic assemblies on both flexible and rigid circuit boards.

Our SMT production line has a specialized "bed of nails" (unit-under-test) test solution that our engineer will become the owner of a Checksum Analyst EMS System. This person will have the responsibility of creating and developing test solutions to support automated test processes for a product line serving consumer, automotive and medical devices.

This person will write test plans, develop microcontroller firmware, and create unique test solutions for transitioning the assembly into a production test environment.

Develop test solutions for the production team. These solutions include programming tests into a Checksum system on our SMT line and other microcontroller-based test solutions.
Understand microcontroller architecture including how to integrate into a design and utilize timers, interrupts, A/Ds, PWM's, etc.
Write and step through C code using a debugger and document and explain your software code to others.
Debug test solutions directly and provide direction to production personnel throughout development cycle.
Identify which aspects of design need to be 100% tested on every assembly.
Understand differences between designing high volume products and developing a test solution that validates each individual product and understand statistical data analysis.
Estimate timelines for development work based on requirements and existing project workload and keep track of time spent on various projects.
Study device specifications for electronic parts and select parts based on performance and cost trade-offs.
Research new technologies for development of test solutions and product design; and proposes ideas to advance our capabilities to stay ahead in the market.
Verify product design. Perform bench level testing of prototypes, executes design validation (DV) and production validation (PV) tests.
Create technical documents based on project needs such as a Test Plans and Reports.
Familiarity with creating Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) for a design, including both possible hardware and software failures.

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