Job Title: Hardware Validation Engineer

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94089– 5 day's on-site

Job Duration: 6+ Months (Contract to hire)

Pay Rate: $60/hr to $67/hr

Job Description:

Mission:

• The Hardware Validation Engineer will be a member of the hardware validation team with responsibilities for the test and validation of the analog, digital, and embedded sub-systems for products.
• This will require close cooperation with the design, validation and test automation team.

Day to Day: 

• You will work at the integrated circuit and product systems level. In this role, you will:
• Work with design teams to develop validation plans
• Execute hands-on validation in a lab environment
• Perform manual test setups using common lab equipment
• Run automated testing using various test platforms and test suites.
• Review and analyze test reports to identify design or test set up issues
• Basic scripting knowledge
• Perform functional verification of electrical subsystems
• Debug/tune of custom hardware

Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, related filed or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of overall experience in validation/test experience
• Experience in failure analysis and troubleshooting skills in a laboratory environment
• Experience with prototyping solutions and bench testing methodology and proficiency in operating common lab equipment
• Experience with test automation with background in scripting
• Experience working in a laboratory environment
• Experience with EE fundamentals

 Pluses:

• Experience with audio, power supplies, video, cameras, I2C/SPI/UART buses, and highspeed electrical signal characterization
• Automation experience (i.e. shell, Perl, Python, Bash, etc.)
• Experience with battery powered, wireless, embedded HW/SW consumer devices