Sr. Test Engineer

Company: Micross Components
Location: Milpitas
Posted on: January 22, 2023

Job Description:

Micross STS provides electrical test, reliability, and performance characterization services across a range of electronic components for use in highly reliable products. The Micross STS team is the last line of defense for testing, screening, and ensuring the reliability of integrated circuit products used in jets, rockets, satellites and spacecraft exploring the universe. The senior RF Test Engineer must possess curiosity and mental ingenuity to design a validation solution for many differing types of products with RF components embedded: FPGA, VLSI ASICs, Memories, Mixed Signal products. If you have a broad range of software and hardware skills, positive, driven, personable, energetic, this is the place that will challenge, promote your growth and development within a friendly environment.
Essential Duties Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 5 years of related professional experience. Master's degree highly desirable.
• Demonstrated trouble shooting skills with an ability to solve complex technical problems.
• Analyze and evaluate specification versus performance to ensure the reliability of the product meets or exceeds the requirements.
• Versatile and tenacious; not intimidated in being repeatedly faced with new challenges and devising solutions
• Independent thinker, capable of going back to core EE principles to address a problem
• Demonstrated expertise in RF bench test equipment setup, instrumentation testing of integrated circuits (spectrum, signal analyzers noise figure, vector signal analysis (VSA), network analyzers PNA, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multi-meter, bit-error rate tester (BERT), and other equipment)
• Develop and debug complex software programs to convert integrated circuit design into device validation solution.
• Exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining results
• V93000 ATE or other ATE test engineering experience in Unix, Linux, C, C++
  Highly Desirable Duties & Responsibilities:
  
  • Design, validate, modify hardware for RF devices; having knowledge of RF Matching and De-embedding redesign PCB DUT circuits to guarantee component margin to specification.
  • Verilog coding experience.
  • Understanding of the integration of ATE subsystems into FPGA and VLSI SOC designs. Architect, design, develop and test FPGA solutions for the test and measurement industry
  • Develop high speed communication interfaces between FPGA, microcontrollers, and PC.
  • Experience with the FPGA firmware development process is a must; including VHDL code development, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, and FPGA verification
  • Experience interfacing high speed A/D, D/A and communication interfaces (I2C, Ethernet, SPI, UARTs, PCIe)
  • Familiarity with current advanced FPGA development tools for signal processing applications (e.g. Xilinx Accel DSP, Simulink, or Altera DSP Builder).
  • Experience designing software & hardware on ASLx, LTX-CX, and LTX-D10 systems
  • Collaboration with business development to determine the technical requirements necessary to support new developments, burn-in and evaluation systems.
  • Electromechanical understanding of components and thermal management techniques.
  • High Volume manufacturing process experience
  • Experience within the military/aerospace industry.
  • Possess a strong programming aptitude, solid understanding of many digital, linear, mixed-signal, memory, and discrete device parameters, and test methodologies used in their measurement
  • Experience Xilinx FGPA or other FPGA family implementations of signal processing algorithms.
  • Experience with Multi-Gigabit Transceiver design.
  • Strong in electronic theory.
  • Familiarity with capacitor current theory, op-amp theory, with transistor or FET theory.
    To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulation, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
    Requirements
    Other Duties & Responsibilities:
    
    • Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures.
    • Participate in continuous improvement team and company efforts.
    • Communicate effectively with all levels of employees.
    • Protect confidential information by not communicating, disclosing, or using for benefit.
    • Maintain the highest degree of honesty and integrity at all times; perform other related
      Benefits
      
      • 401(k) & 401(k) matching
      • Medical insurance
      • Dental insurance
      • Vision insurance
      • Company Paid Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
      • Company Paid Basic Life insurance
      • Flexible spending account
      • Health savings account
      • Employee assistance program
      • Paid time off
      • Tuition reimbursement
      • Pet Insurance
      • Legal Assistance
      • Accident, Critical Illness & Hospitalization Insurance

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