Hardware Test Engineer - The Panther Group

HARDWARE TEST ENGINEER
The Panther Group has an immediate need for a Hardware Test Engineer in the Wayne, NJ area.

Responsibilities:

• The selected candidate will be part of a test engineering team throughout the product lifecycle.
• The Test Engineer should have a strong background in Electrical or Computer Engineering, and possess a demonstrated ability in designing, developing, and deploying complex automated test systems, test applications, documentation, and selecting commercial Instrumentation for testing Military Comms, Navigation, and Electronic Warfare equipment.

Experience and Skills Required:

• A minimum of 4 years required designing and developing test equipment hardware for automated test systems utilized in both production and engineering environments.
• Architecting and designing test equipment hardware/test station used for testing:
  • analog, digital, RF circuit cards
  • hybrid modules
  • higher-level systems and subsystems
• Experiencing in the design and documentation of:
  • Interface Test Adapters (ITAs)
  • 9' test racks, including the selection of rack-and-stack instruments and PXI hardware.
  • test cabling
  • custom test module design
  • definition/selection/design of custom switch modules/matrices
• Developing, releasing, updating hardware documentation for test requirements, test design, and operating procedures for acceptance test and environmental stress screening applications.

Experience and Skills Preferred:

• Experience in factory production test stands design, integration, problem isolation and resolution.
• Experience designing interface test adapters (ITAs) is highly desired.
• Experienced in using test instrumentation (oscilloscopes, PXI systems & I/O modules, network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generators, etc.)
• Familiar with boundary scan tools and software Familiar with FPGA programming and debugging.
• Performing design for test (DFT) analysis. Generating Test Requirement Documents (TRDs) for military depot customers.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering required.  Master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred.