Electrical Test Engineer III

San Diego, CA

Our Space client in San Diego are looking for an Electrical Test Engineer III to work in a project team environment as an individual contributor on new test architectures design and development and/or sustaining engineering tasks.

Responsibilities will include functional performance and environmental test architectures design, development, scheduling, and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Review device and system level functional specifications, design documents and project documents.
• Participate in the review of design and coding of software products.
• Ensure that all developed test protocols are and/or can be automated, follow testing standards, and are documented.
• Develop work estimates and status reports for each test effort.
• May lead and coordinate part or all of the testing effort for a project. This usually requires development and tracking of a test plan and test schedule as well as the reporting of test results.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, with concentration in software; or equivalent knowledge in the areas of software engineering.
• Extensive background in test engineering with demonstrated technical skills.
• Expert level configuration of ATE components including rack instrumentation and PXI architectures.
• Excellent track record developing test automation software using LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Python, C#, Visual Basic.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience with test tools and equipment, with emphasis on high end spectrum and vector network analyzers.
• Experience writing and executing test procedures; Strong documentation skills.

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts related to bed of nail test fixtures design and construction.
• Previous experience testing RF devices operating in the S, X and Ka bands
• Previous exposure to optics and laser communication technologies