Test Engineer

Ledgent - San Jose, CA

Full-time

San Jose, CA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Test Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality and performance of DC-DC products through documentation, troubleshooting, analysis, and qualification processes. This role involves supporting production efforts, resolving non-conformances, and developing test hardware and fixtures to meet production yield goals. The engineer will also engage in various analyses and support external tests, ensuring timely new-product releases to production while collaborating with design and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for DC-DC products (documentation, troubleshooting, analysis and qualification) to meet Production Yield Goals.
• Support production by troubleshooting DC-DC Converters, supporting functional tests and providing trimming process guidance.
• Ensure the resolution of non-conformances from failure mode to root cause through corrective and preventative action.
• Perform analyses (Stress and Thermal Analysis, MTBF -Reliability), as necessary.
• Design and develop test hardware, using Cadence Allegro, and perform simulations for analysis.
• Support the release of design packages and review customer specification data sheets.
• Support external tests, such as vibration and shock, as well as radiation tests, including Total Ionizing Dose (TID) and Single Event Effects (SEE).
• Develop and implement test fixtures for ATE (Chroma) conversion projects.
• Initiate, write & release new test programs to ensure timely new-product release to production.
• Perform test validation, improvement, qualification and release to production per corporate standards and procedures.
• Identify root causes and resolve problems related to automated test equipment (ATE), test adapters, main board and test fixtures.
• Work with operations to identify and document test improvement opportunities.
• Support the test engineering and design teams to define proper test concepts.

Requirements

• Masters/bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical/Electronics/Microelectronics).
• Experience in the semiconductor industry (preferably product and/or test engineering).
• Basic experience in related product testing in terms of hardware, test correlation, test summary/data uploading, release process and interfacing.
• Knowledge of Automated Test Equipment such as Teradyne, chroma, Visual Studio.
• Experience building test pictures.
• Knowledge in PCB design (EMI Filters, LabView, etc.).
• Strong understanding of electronic engineering principles in areas including analog and digital circuits, power supplies, and DC-DC converters.
• Experience in PCB schematic capture tools such as OrCAD / Cadence Allegro.
• Basic programming experience programming in C / C++, VBasic or Python.
• Hands-on experience performing bench electrical measurements using signal generators, DVMs, oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills, and teamwork capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with multiple different stakeholders.