Manufacturing Test Engineer

ST Engineering iDirect • Herndon, VA

4h • $90,000 - $120,000

About The Position

At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning.
We are looking for a highly motivated manufacturing test engineering professional, who can work alongside our Design, Quality and Manufacturing teams to create infrastructure needed to ensure that products shipped to customers are defect free. This position will require you to leverage your knowledge of Manufacturing, Manufacturing Test, Hardware design and Software development to create innovative, and groundbreaking solutions that are required to test today's complex hardware.
This position involves access to hardware, software, technology, technical data, and/or services that may be regulated under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), U.S. sanctions laws administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and other applicable export control, sanctions, and national security laws and regulations.
As a condition of employment, and where permitted by applicable law, candidates may be required to provide information necessary for the Company to determine whether any export license, governmental authorization, security clearance, or other regulatory approval is required before access to controlled items, technology, technical data, software, or services can be granted.
In addition to U.S. requirements, access to certain controlled information, technology, technical data, products, or services may be subject to export control, sanctions, national security, or similar regulatory requirements in other jurisdictions where the Company operates or conducts business. Any such requirements will be assessed and applied in accordance with applicable law.
The information that will be requested is limited strictly to what is required to comply with ITAR, EAR, and other applicable export-control, national security and sanctions laws. The Company does not otherwise discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of citizenship, national origin, or immigration status. All applicants are evaluated on their qualifications, and export-control status information is collected and used solely for regulatory compliance purposes.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years experience in the test engineering profession
• 5+ years experience developing manufacturing test software using Labview/Teststand
• Python Programming experience including instrument control, interfacing with SQL databases, and source management best practices
• Demonstrated ability to work independently to achieve desired results from general objectives
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with contractors, and engineering teams worldwide
• Excellent communication skills: listening, speaking, and in writing; able to express thoughts and concepts to a variety of people with different skill levels

Nice To Haves

• Experience in hardware design an asset
• Experience with communication systems, radio/microwave frequency, and/or vsat systems is a plus

Responsibilities

• Working with the hardware design engineering teams, define an efficient test strategy for boards, modules, and systems. This encompasses the definition of test hardware, test fixtures, and embedded test resources within the product to improve testability
• Provide level of effort estimates to the NPI product manager to support scheduling of development and factory introduction activity
• Develop manufacturing test software within a LabVIEW/Teststand/Python environment
• Actively participate in the definition and evolution of the manufacturing test software environment
• Support production activity within ST Engineering iDirect by helping to resolve production issues as they occur, with emphasis on understanding and resolving the root cause of the problem
• Identify opportunities for manufacturing test cost reduction, such as test yield improvements, and test time reductions, without impacting outgoing product quality
• Work with our IT team to evaluate and improve our data collection, and test metric reporting capabilities
• Represent Manufacturing test at Business Review meetings with teams at our manufacturing sites

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level