Test Support Engineer

ALTEN Technology USA•Foster City, CA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Location: Rotating (Foster City, Fremont, Hayward, CA) Travel: With notice to Bay Area locations above ALTEN Technology USA is looking for a line support engineer to support hardware testing across manufacturing lines and service locations for one of our outstanding customers. This role spans testing across components (such as compute, sensor units), car (systems) and care (service). As one of the primary engineers, you will be responsible for troubleshooting and debugging issues to ensure we meet our aggressive scaling targets. You will use your knowledge of electronics manufacturing and software to resolve issues across different domains - firmware flashing, networking, debugging python scripts, Linux expertise to list a few. We are looking for an engineer who can easily switch between component level and system level testing. The ability to work independently and organize work around schedules and critical deadlines is a definite plus. We are looking for an engineer who is curious, enthusiastic, and not afraid to embrace new technologies!

Requirements

BS in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, physics, or equivalent technical degree
3+ years of industry experience or equivalent including expertise in manufacturing and production testing of electronic assemblies such as cameras or network switches
Strong knowledge of Python and shell (bash) scripting.
Some knowledge of working with APIs, ssh (remote access) and linux terminal tools (e.g. grep) and logs (e.g. dmesg) is expected.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of NPI testing and validation is a strong plus.
Knowledge of git (version control), CI/CD pipelines, Bazel would be a definite plus.
Knowledge of factory automation frameworks such as Ignition and MES.
Knowledge of automotive protocols such as CAN and hardware interfaces.
Knowledge of python frameworks such as Pytest and requests.
Experience reading wiring diagrams and schematics would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

Triage and debug test issues on manufacturing lines using knowledge of scripting, automotive tools, networking infrastructure and Linux terminal tools.
Investigate both failures and line-down situations to quickly resolve and suggest long term improvement plans.
Work cross functionally across test, manufacturing, IT, product security and other integration teams to root cause issues and implement corrective action.
Support roll out of new test solutions (hardware and software) to the manufacturing and service lines.
Run test experiments, gage R&R runs, validate test changes.
Establish best practices and drive continuous improvement for improving test deployments, runtimes, and yields