Electronics Product Validation Engineer - Alten Technology USA

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we've been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that's by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.

ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world's most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don't have to take our word for it that we are a great place to workwe were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

Job Description:

• Review customer requirements during pre-award and early product design phase and develop validation plans to satisfy customer specifications (including EMC and environmental electronic testing plans).
• Conduct customer reviews of the test plans and obtain final customer approvals.
• Support customer quote efforts by providing cost estimates for ENV and EMC testing.
• Preparation of reliability analyses for customer (reliability calculations).
• Coordination of design verification and product validation testing and communication of results.
• Work with product engineering to ensure parts assigned for validation are of the proper build level and expected quality.
• Track first time through (FTT) metric for each test plan.
• Collaborating with engineering, quality and warranty groups on common failure modes to ensure any additional POL screening or robustness test are added to the internal ENV and EMC plans.
• Support review on pre-production part builds to verify parts to be sent to customers will meet engineering quality expectations.
• Lead the test fixture development process: test fixture specification, sourcing, build and approval, in collaboration with PD and Quality engineers.
• Lead collection of necessary test boxes, interface boxes, wire harnesses and other hardware necessary to perform the testing.
• Prepare specifications (from existing test plans) to support outsourced testing, as required.
• Maintain POL's database of customer and industry validation specifications.
• Support test plan development for engineering changes and cost reduction investigations.
• Support Continuous Improvement process to keep updated documents related to product validation, such as: Test Readiness Checklist, Design guidelines, Standard Templates development, DVPR baselines, etc.
• Within validation process consolidate quality records, provide feedback to new programs and coordinate open issues regarding implementation of corrective and preventative actions from investigation process (VPRS, lessons learned process).
• Support on fulfill traceability conditions according to Customer requirements (ISO26262, SPICE, CMMI, etc.)
• Cooperation and information sharing with international POL team (America, Europe, India, China). Active participation/support on problems solving in all POL locations.

Education:

• BS in engineering or equivalent required; electronic, electrical engineering preferred.

Experience:

• 6 years minimum related experience preferred.
• Experience preparing ENV and EMC test plans is required (Test Plan, DVPR or other format).
• Experience with ENV and EMC troubleshooting
• Experience working with electronic components per automotive industry.
• Knowledge of LED applications, electronics integration, and EMC.
• Knowledge of electronics handling, and end-of-line testing (EOL) is a plus.
• Knowledge of typical electronics phenomena such as ESD and EOS.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required. Experience interfacing with automotive OEMs is desired. Ability to work with multiple teams is critical.
• Demonstrate professional behaviors and attitudes while performing job responsibilities and in communications with the customer, coworkers and supporting/interfacing organizations.
• Must be a team player and be able to give accurate status and progress reports on assigned program/project.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint expected.
• Must have strong language skill both conversational and technical (English, Spanish is a plus).

Additional Information:

• Occasional overtime/travel may be required as dictated by program milestones.