Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer (PCBA)
About The Position
Austin is home to Optiver’s hardware research, development, and manufacturing group. We build some of the world’s most competitive trading hardware—high-speed, high-density systems that push the limits of performance, reliability, and manufacturability. We’re growing fast and looking for a Manufacturing Test Engineer focused on PCBA test development and deployment. You’ll own board-level test solutions from early prototypes through volume production—building fixtures, developing automation, driving debug, and partnering closely with contract manufacturers and our internal EE/ME/FPGA/firmware teams. We’re a small, highly technical team, and this role comes with real autonomy: you’ll have the runway to improve how we do test, raise the bar on factory readiness, and build scalable processes as our hardware footprint grows.
Requirements
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Strong Python skills: automation, hardware I/O, parsing logs, data analysis, packaging/CI practices.
- Ability to understand register maps and leverage HALs for creation of test scripts
- Proficient ECAD skills to develop schematics and oversee layout work: Altium, Mentor Graphics, Cadence or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying manufacturing PCBA tests in a production environment.
- Comfortable with hardware debug using scopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers; strong troubleshooting instincts.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers and external vendor engineering teams, including clear communication and escalation management.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with FPGA prototyping and basic RTL concepts (enough to support debug/bring-up and test hooks).
- Familiarity with C and/or C++ for embedded firmware development
- Experience with high-speed digital board debug (clocking, SERDES links, power sequencing, SI/PI-related failure modes).
- Solidworks familiarity.
Responsibilities
- Own PCBA manufacturing test strategy across the product lifecycle: EVT/DVT/PVT → ramp → sustaining
- coverage definition, limits/thresholds, logging, and yield monitoring
- Design and build PCBA test fixtures spanning: ICT & Functional verification test (FVT), Burn-in / reliability screening, Final assembly tests (FATP), System interoperability testing
- Develop automated test software with strong emphasis on Python scripting, maintainability, and scalability
- Partner with contract manufacturers to deploy tests on the line, train vendor teams, and drive continuous improvement.
- Drive DFT/DFM feedback into design reviews with EE and ME teams
- Define and maintain test documentation: Test plans, work instructions, golden unit strategy, calibration/maintenance procedures, and acceptance criteria.
- Use modern tooling (including AI-assisted workflows where helpful) to speed up debug, log triage, and documentation—without compromising repeatability and traceability.
- Travel periodically to supplier sites to support NPI builds, line bring-up, and ramp
Benefits
- Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.
- 25 paid vacation days and market holidays
- fully paid health insurance
- daily breakfast and lunch
- training opportunities
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- charitable match opportunities
- regular social events and clubs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
