Associate Engineer, Test Manufacturing

About the Role

The Associate Engineer, Test Manufacturing accepts, transfers, installs, improves, and maintains automatic test equipment and test programs for product testing and design verification. They may also support test development for test equipment and processes to ensure robust, high-quality test solutions and final products.

Key Responsibilities

• Under supervision and with minimal assistance, define, specify, qualify, install, support, and optimize test process and test equipment solutions for manufacturing.
• Lead test process optimization with a focus on productivity improvements to cycle time and yield for a specific set of equipment within an Operations value stream.
• Debug test process and equipment solutions using design of experiments, tools, and failure analysis methodologies.
• Collaborate with Quality, Process, and Equipment engineers to detect and solve product and test yield and performance issues.
• Develop improvement roadmaps for test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, test time reductions, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Analyze and interpret data and information from yield reports, equipment logs, and product diagnostics to determine sources of yield loss.
• Provide solution support to process engineers to improve detection of known defect types as part of a Process Control plan.
• Support the development of test equipment integration into Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), including yield, tester log, and product parametric information.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Structural Process Verification: Configure, maintain, and execute structural In-Circuit Testing (ICT) on Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs) to identify component-level defects, opens, shorts, and interconnect integrity issues.
• Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Management: Set up, calibrate, and troubleshoot automated test stations and hardware fixtures, demonstrating hands-on proficiency with Keysight test equipment, signal generators, power supplies, and digital multimeters.
• Yield Optimization & Debugging: Debug board-level electrical and component failures utilizing circuit schematics, design of experiments (DOE), and statistical process control (SPC) charts to drive site First Pass Yield (FPY) metrics.
• Data-Driven Continuous Improvement: Extract and analyze manufacturing test data to pinpoint board-level process bottlenecks, compiling technical summaries to deliver actionable feedback to process and product engineering teams.

Qualifications

• No specific educational qualifications were explicitly stated in the provided text.