System Validation & Automation Engineer III (Senior)

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
Creating and executing engineering design verification test plans
Preparing and executing reliability test plans to increase confidence in warranty and service life targets
Conducting Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALT) and Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) to expose device vulnerabilities and improve designs
Perform engineering assessments of test and verification activities against real-world field applications
Designing and building test instrumentation systems to standardize and automate experiments and data capture of many concurrent DUT simultaneously
Conducting and reviewing Gage repeatability and reproducibility analyses as well as yield reports and production test issue resolution
Assist with root causing factory issues with a background of manufacturing processes and design knowledge to isolate variables and find system or component level issues
PFMEA’s and performing assessments and trade-offs of test coverage to conceptualize production test suites for high volume mass production test
Executing on cost-benefit analyses and risk assessments to optimize production test decisions and coverage
Documentation and report creation of tests completed
Analyzing experimentation results and engineering reports from others to issue approval or rejection
Identifying component alternates and creating test plans to validate substitutions to reduce BOM cost or mitigate supply chain issues
Environmental, ESD, Surge, EFT and compliance testing of new and existing products
Researching, identifying and executing on applicable UL, CSA, IEC or other specifications relevant to product development
Prototyping of new circuits before inclusion into production programs
Creating of Production Test Plans, Test scripts and Production Test Fixtures
Collaborating with teammates to improve and guide all test/verification activities (reports, methods, procedures, designs, fixtures) and creating proposals of ideas
Providing recommendations on design integrity and issuing recommendation to proceed to mass production
Identify and escalate major design risk factors; identify, validate and propose alternate suggestions with concern for cross-functional impact (feature set, cost targets, design scope, etc.)
Designing Printed Circuit Boards intended to prototype new circuits, create fixtures, development tools or other uses
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics (or similar)
5+ years industry experience in electrical hardware product development with emphasis on consumer electronics
Must have been involved with full product development and high volume production
design concept, circuit design, multiple stages of prototype development and test, entry into manufacturing, test fixtures
identify and resolve design issues resulting in more reliable product and easing production
identify and resolve field failures and work back improvements into the design.
Experience in Hardware design, validation and test execution
Proven experience in Schematic design and review, Printed Circuit Board review
Printed Circuit Board review and knowledge of PCB layout fundamentals
Hardware debugging and root cause analysis
Analog and high-speed digital circuit analysis
Familiarity with oscilloscope, DAQ, DMM, thermal chamber, spectrum analyzer, VNA among other lab equipment
Understanding of testing principles and impact on results
Solder and rework fine pitch electronic SMT components including 0201, XDFN, TSOT
Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes
Understanding of full product design principles, thermal transfer, etc. and impact on electronics
Knowledge of embedded systems, architecture, operating states, and optimizations
Strong industry awareness of critical parts manufacturers
Bonus Points if You Can Bring this to the Table:
Background in PCB layout including optimization of power distribution networks, stack-up design, high-speed interfaces and high voltage systems
Experience in low power, IoT sensor design
CPU architectures, 8 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit experience
Memory architectures, eMMC, DDR3, DDR4 etc.
Embedded Linux and C++ development, Ability to write C++ for MCU applications
Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation