Test Development Engineer

Jabil•Austin, TX

About The Position

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe. JOB SUMMARY Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services. Operating from over 100 facilities in 29 countries, Jabil delivers innovative, integrated, and tailored solutions to customers across a broad range of industries and end-markets, such as automotive, consumer lifestyle and wearable tech, defense and aerospace, connected home and building, industrial and energy, enterprise and infrastructure, healthcare, mobility, packaging and printing. Jabil is seeking a Lead Test Development Engineer who will directly contribute to the transformative growth in our Intelligent Infrastructure division by applying unique and innovative approaches to solving problems within our large-scale production environment. The Lead Test Development Engineer plays a vital role in ensuring the quality and reliability of hardware products, contributing to the overall success of the manufacturing process and customer satisfaction. You will be responsible for contributing to the end-to-end architecture, definition, development and production deployment of production Test solutions in our manufacturing regions. You will also be responsible for interfacing with our customers, fixture vendors and internal teams from engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure fixture deliverables meet the rigorous standards of Jabil’s world-class manufacturing environments.

Requirements

Thorough knowledge and in-depth field experience regarding emerging or job technologies required to fulfill the job
Strong communications and customer service skills
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Understands Manufacturing Test Strategy and demonstrates proficiency in more than one area of test development.
Broad knowledge of Test Development areas including structural and functional test, development of Manufacturing Test Specifications and Design For Test Analysis.
Extensive amount of hands-on practical knowledge in a test development environment.
Strong appreciation and understanding of relevant industry standards and specifications.
Demonstrated ability to consistently provide innovative manufacturing test solutions.
Recognized ability to write, create presentations, speak, and to effectively represent Test Development to other Jabil groups, external customers, and technology peer groups in the industry.
Bachelor's Degree required.
8 to 10 years work-related experience required.
Or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience.
Travel requirements: Domestic and/or Global, up to 10%

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree preferred.
Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

Typically assigned to develop lead projects, architect solutions, test specifications and test solutions of medium to high complexity
Test solution development tasks are done according to budget and schedule commitments from the test solution quotes
The tasks comprising a test solution development may include, but are not limited to, Design for Test (DFT), design, assembly, debug, validation, deployment, and emergency support of electrical hardware, mechanical hardware, optical hardware and software.
Electrical hardware typically includes, but is not limited to: o Storage, Servers, GPIB, USB and RS-232 controlled equipment o PXI and LXI based test equipment o Design of custom circuitry implemented in custom circuit boards and cables
Mechanical hardware typically includes, but is not limited to: o Bench-test setups o 19” equipment racks o Custom automated high-throughput fixtures with probe fields, and top, bottom, and side mounted pneumatically actuated modules.
Software and compilers typically includes, but is not limited to: o Lab Windows/CVI, Lab View and Test Stand o C#, ANSI C and Visual C++ o Visual Basic o HTML, PERL, ASP and custom scripting languages. o Software for Agilent 3070, GenRad ICT and other MDA platforms
Test development sites develop solutions for several test processes including, but not limited to: o Boundary Scan/ JTAG o Board-level functional test o System test
The process of developing test solutions includes, but is not limited to: o Test development (OrCAD, AutoCAD, FabMaster and other software development tools listed above) o Project tracking (action items, journals, time entry, milestones, and deliverables checklists) o Test solution design guidelines (global fixture specification, schematic design requirements) o Design reviews (Initial and post-installation) o Documentation package templates (test specification, BOM’s, tester validation, etc…)
Test solution quotes typically include, but are not limited to: o Price and schedule commitment o Hardware, Software and Documentation package description o Specification of tester validation criteria and required customer deliverables.
The process of developing test solution quotes includes, but is not limited to: o Completion of quotes on-schedule
Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy.
May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.