Electronics Lab Technician

Job: Electronics Lab Technician

Duration: 4+ Months

Location: Palo Alto, California (Onsite)

Job Description:
In this role, you’ll be part of the team responsible for reliability and manufacturing testing electrical hardware including Level 3+ ADAS, telematics, infotainment, battery management, and zonal Electronic Control Units (ECUs). Our team builds custom automated test solutions that include internal-facing software, low-level firmware, data management platforms, and custom electromechanical hardware. These solutions get deployed internally, at external labs, and contract manufacturing facilities.  You’ll be a key technical part of the team and will work with the engineering leads to conduct reliability and manufacturing testing, review and report test data, build first articles, redline schematics, and troubleshoot issues.

Top Skills/Reposibilities:

• Operate software user interfaces to exercise test equipment during hardware bring up.
• Own calibration and mechanical setup of thermal and vibration chambers.
• Troubleshoot, root cause, and document DUT, test equipment, and harness failures.

Responsibilities

• Operate software user interfaces to exercise test equipment during hardware bring up.
• Validate systems functionality by using standard lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies and digital multimeters.
• Own calibration and mechanical setup of thermal and vibration chambers.
• Troubleshoot, root cause, and document DUT, test equipment, and harness failures.
• Perform circuit board electronic modifications such as component rework, soldering/de-soldering of electronic components, etc.
• Support commissioning of new systems.

Qualifications

• Technical degree or relevant experience in electronics testing.
• Able to read electrical schematics, drawings, and manufacturers’ product data sheets.
• 5+ years of experience building automated test equipment (ATE) or industrial automation systems.
• Experience using power tools.
• Experience with soldering and circuit board re-work.
• Experience with electrical testing using laboratory tools.
• Ability to use Microsoft and Google productivity applications: spreadsheets, word processing, presentation
• Able to move/lift test boxes and instrumentation.
• Hands-on approach: proactively identifies and fills in gaps where needed.