PCBA Test Design Development Engineer

Role overview

What you’ll do

• Work with R&D groups on structural test strategies for printed circuit boards, including functional, flying-probe and in-circuit test platforms.
• Translate product design requirements into manufacturable solutions and align with R&D teams on Design for Manufacturing.
• Develop hardware and software test fixtures, including program development quotations, schedules, documentation, validation and production release.
• Design electronic circuits and wiring and develop test software to achieve full test automation.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure product quality and reliability and provide hands-on manufacturing support, including test-system debugging.
• Contribute time-scale estimates to project plans and participate in PCB, higher-level assembly and system-level test planning and execution.
• Support new product introduction, process improvement and lean manufacturing objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Engineering Technology or a related field.
• At least five years of experience in PCBA Test Design Development Engineering or a similar field.

Skills and experience

• Proven test-development experience, including knowledge of bed-of-nails functional testing.
• Experience developing test strategies, calculating test coverage and optimizing test methods and equipment for quality and cost-effective solutions.
• Experience with LabVIEW programming; NI TestStand or LabVIEW CLD certification and TestStand LabVIEW CVI experience are advantages.
• Strong understanding of electronic components and experience designing and applying production test equipment.
• Experience with PCB design and assembly for test fixtures; IEC 60204-1 and IEC 61439 knowledge is an added advantage.
• Cellular manufacture, lean manufacturing, kaizen and 5S experience, and CAD/CAM fixture design and simulation tools, are advantages.
• Familiarity with in-circuit test equipment (Keysight 3070, Teradyne, Aeroflex or TRI) and flying-probe testers (Takaya, SPEA or SEICA) is desirable.

What Eaton offers

• Annual mentoring, Eaton University, reward and recognition, and ongoing learning and career development opportunities.
• A diverse local and global team, structured employee development, feedback and onboarding processes.
• The posting describes a hybrid worktime model.