Manufacturing Test Engineer - VAST Data

VAST Data is looking for a Manufacturing Test Engineer.

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."

- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

The Role:

• Collaboration with the HW Engineering team to develop and maintain new test procedures that align with product specifications and design requirements.
• Collaboration with Manufacturing partners  to provide ongoing support to ensure high product quality during the integration and test.
• Code development for server, networking and storage components test and process automation
• Thoroughly document all stages of software and hardware development, ensuring clarity and traceability throughout the testing process.
• Maintain test plans, enhancements and new product test development roadmaps
• Support all aspects of the manufacturing test process for new Hardware to sustaining support at all approved manufacturing sites. 
• Cross functional work  to ensure the test processes and their implementation to production provide the highest quality of products through optimal test coverage.
• Develop test automation scripts and validate them before product launch.
• Document test processes for new products.
• Evaluate and optimize test coverage.
• Provide feedback to other engineering groups to get issues resolved.

Responsibilities:

• Support Manufacturing Test Development for new and existing hardware designs.
• Develop automated test scripts for Functional and System tests using Python and open source utilities.
• Support the development, integration and deployment of test platforms for Vast's global manufacturing partners.
• Provide technical support and failure analysis for discrepant production components and assemblies.
• Drive Root Cause and Corrective Action and Failure Modes Effects Analysis on defects and escalations.
• Train operators on test processes and support recurring certification programs
• Continuously focused on process improvement and developing Best Known Methods.
• Review new software releases and develop solid and robust test process scripts.
• Manage the transfer and set up of new products or new software to a manufacturing site.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Scripting language experience to support existing scripts and for developing new production programming and test scripts.
• Knowledge of programming devices like CPLD, FPGA, and Flash memory will be helpful.
• Experience with setting up, supporting, and using Windows PCs as ‘test stations’ on small/medium multi-switch LANs. Knowledge of Linux servers and network topologies.
• 3 years of experience in manufacturing tests, hardware development, or software development and validation.
• Good understanding of compute and storage architectures
• Experience integrating software with high level hardware components in a system.
• Familiar with manufacturing process and PLM systems
• Domestic and international travel may be required to transfer products and provide on-site training.
• Willingness to work across time zones to collaborate with teams in Israel, EU, 
• Willingness to remotely support the manufacturing test process at our CMs.
• Work with existing test infrastructure and maintain and improve upon it.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• New graduates and candidates with a few years of experience working in a high-tech environment will be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to develop test code in scripting languages.
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to define requirements and capability to deliver test solutions
• Bench-top electrical debug tool experience as well as electrical design of test circuitry
• Experience in circuit-level debug to the component level
• Linux-based product OS testing and control