Test Engineer

Epiq Design Solutions•Rolling Meadows, IL

3h•$110,000 - $120,000

About The Position

Epiq Solutions develops cutting-edge software-defined radio (SDR) products and processing solutions to enable spectrum dominance for maritime, land, air, and space domains. With 15 years serving government and commercial enterprise customers and 25K+ devices fielded to date, Epiq Solutions is a trusted partner with a proven heritage of delivering open architecture products in radically small form factors where time-to-market, cost, and performance are critical for mission success. Epiq Solutions is seeking a full time Senior Test Engineer with 2-5 years of hands-on experience to join our team developing and testing Epiq’s software defined radio (SDR) product line. The primary responsibility of this role is to architect and implement automated test solutions for the various board-level and system-level products developed by Epiq. This includes the development of hardware test harnesses as well as test software to test the device under test, interface and control electronic test equipment (RF signal generators, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, temperature chambers, etc), collect data to measure performance, and generate reports of test results. The ideal candidate should have new product introduction (NPI) experience, taking a product from initial design and requirements gathering to final production testing and support. The candidate would work closely with both our engineering team as well as our production team. Specific job tasks include the following:

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience
Real-world NPI experience (2+ years) developing software to drive automated test equipment (ATE) in Python
Basic understanding of radio concepts and RF measurement techniques
Able to read and interpret schematics, PCB layout, and assembly documents for electronic printed circuit boards
Comfortable working with engineering staff to develop test procedures and documentation
Design and build test harnesses/fixtures which will be used in production testing
Self-starter and able to multitask between two or more projects
Willing and able to obtain a Secret security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship

Nice To Haves

Understanding of RF performance metrics, such as noise figure, spurious free dynamic range, image rejection, etc.
RF testing experience at 18GHz and 40 GHz
Experience testing products that utilize high-speed backplanes such as 3U/6U VPX and PXI form factors
Experience with temperature, shock, burn-in and environmental testing (including MIL-STD 810G)
Experience using Linux and developing software applications that run on Linux-based computer systems
Comfortable with using Git version control software
Comfortable with Atlassian tools such as BitBucket and Jira

Responsibilities

Work with engineering team to identify, develop, and document the required testing scenarios for Epiq's products from concept to production
Develop software libraries for controlling various electronic test equipment, including RF signal generators, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, temperature chambers, etc. via GPIB, serial, ethernet, or other standard interfaces
Architect and implement complete automated test software applications for Epiq's products
Develop documentation capturing the details of the test procedures
Generate test results, reports, and recommendations for review by both engineering and production teams
Provide training on test procedures to production staff
Support production team in resolving yield and build issues