Entry-Level Test Engineer: RF & Mixed-Signal Systems

Fairwinds Technologies, L; Town of Middletown (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Fairwinds Technologies, LLC is seeking an entry-level Test Engineer to verify xG and Mixed-Signal products and support technical services. You will work with experienced teams across RF, embedded systems, and test automation to translate requirements into clear test objectives and acceptance criteria.

The role involves configuring equipment, executing diverse tests, collecting data, and developing automated checks with Python, MATLAB, or Bash.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Technology, or a closely related technical field, completed or expected before start date.
• Coursework, laboratory, internship, capstone, research, maker-space, or personal-project experience involving test, measurement, troubleshooting, integration, data analysis, or technical documentation.
• Foundational understanding of the engineering test lifecycle, including objectives, configurations, procedures, measurement, repeatability, acceptance criteria, and reporting.
• Basic experience using laboratory instruments, software tools, command-line utilities, or data-analysis applications to investigate technical behavior.
• Ability to follow controlled procedures while recognizing unexpected results, asking good questions, and documenting observations accurately.
• Ability to use structured problem solving, organize test evidence, communicate assumptions, and explain results clearly.
• Ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary engineering environment and satisfy customer, site-access, export-control, and security requirements associated with assigned work.

Responsibilities

• Translate product, system, interface, and customer requirements into test objectives, methods, data needs, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain test plans, cases, procedures, checklists, configurations, data sheets, traceability records, and formal test reports.
• Configure and operate laboratory equipment, radios, network devices, embedded systems, channel emulators, RF components, computers, and automated test environments.
• Execute functional, performance, interoperability, regression, environmental-support, reliability, and acceptance testing per procedures.
• Collect, organize, visualize, and analyze test data for metrics like signal quality, frequency response, gain, noise, throughput, latency, packet loss, error rate, timing, thermal behavior, and stability.
• Create scripts (Python, MATLAB, Bash) to automate equipment control, data collection, analysis, plotting, and report inputs.
• Document test anomalies, reproduce failures, isolate conditions, support root-cause investigations, and verify corrective actions.
• Coordinate test readiness, equipment availability, calibration status, software/firmware baselines, test articles, interfaces, safety controls, and configuration records.
• Participate in laboratory and field testing, customer demonstrations, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, and technical-service deliverables.

Skills

Foundational test lifecycle

Structured problem solving

Documentation and reporting

Analytical thinking

Collaboration in multidisciplinary env

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems/Mechanical Engineering or related

Tools

Python

MATLAB

LabVIEW

Bash / Linux

Git

Job description

Fairwinds Technologies, LLC is seeking an entry-level Test Engineer to verify xG and Mixed-Signal products and support technical services. You will work with experienced teams across RF, embedded systems, and test automation to translate requirements into clear test objectives and acceptance criteria.

The role involves configuring equipment, executing diverse tests, collecting data, and developing automated checks with Python, MATLAB, or Bash.