Board Test Engineer - AI Accelerator Boards

Fractile; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in London

Office in Bristol

Job summary

Fractile is building silicon, systems and software that push AI to new speed and cost frontiers. We seek an experienced board/test engineer to design and implement production-ready test solutions for high‑volume boards integrating AI accelerators and PCIe interconnects.

You will own test content, fixtures, and MCU-based diagnostics while collaborating with offshore EMS partners to ensure robust, repeatable tests and yield improvements across manufacturing lines.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of board or PCBA test engineering in high-volume manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience with functional test development, ICT, and boundary scan/JTAG.
• Experience designing or supporting test fixtures and automated test stations.
• Working knowledge of high-speed digital interfaces and board-level failure modes.
• Experience developing or supporting embedded test firmware on MCUs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain board/PCBA manufacturing test content for complex, high-power, high-speed boards.
• Implement and debug test coverage across ICT, boundary scan/JTAG, and functional test stages.
• Design and support board-level functional test solutions, including fixtures, probes, cabling, and instrumentation.
• Develop MCU-based board test firmware for manufacturing diagnostics and telemetry validation.
• Support bring-up and debug of board test stations at offshore EMS/CM sites.
• Analyze test failures and yield data to identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.

Skills

Board/PCBA test engineering

ICT

Bounday scan/JTAG

Test fixtures

Embedded test firmware

Debug high-speed interconnects

Offshore manufacturing collaboration

Tools

Automated test stations

Fixture design

Job description

Fractile is building silicon, systems and software that push AI to new speed and cost frontiers. We seek an experienced board/test engineer to design and implement production-ready test solutions for high‑volume boards integrating AI accelerators and PCIe interconnects.

You will own test content, fixtures, and MCU-based diagnostics while collaborating with offshore EMS partners to ensure robust, repeatable tests and yield improvements across manufacturing lines.