Senior Test Engineer, Electronics Manufacturing for UAVs

PDW; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

On-site gym in Huntsville

Job summary

Performance Drone Works (PDW) is seeking a Senior Test Engineer, Electronics Manufacturing to join our Huntsville team. You will lead electrical test system design for PCBAs, wiring harnesses, and production validation in internal and CM environments, ensuring reliability for our sUAS platforms.

You will own test fixtures lifecycle, specify testing requirements, coordinate with hardware and manufacturing, and drive continuous improvement of test throughput, yield, and quality as production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years designing electrical test systems for production CM environments.
• Experience with bed-of-nails, flying probe, and ICT.
• Experience with microcontrollers bootstrapping (SWD/JTAG).
• Knowledge of I2C, USB, CAN, Serial, and SPI and associated debugging/test procedures.
• Proficiency in CAD tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence or equivalent.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deploy electrical test systems for PCBAs, wiring harnesses, and subsystem validation in internal production and CM environments.
• Own the full lifecycle of test fixtures, including design, fabrication, validation, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Develop manufacturing test specification requirements, testing criteria, plans, and test fixtures for design verification and validation by production and CM.
• Coordinate fabrication and assembly with contract manufacturers and ensure robust QA for PCBAs.
• Analyze production data to drive yield improvements and identify failure trends, implementing corrective actions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize test systems for throughput, reliability, and OEE.

Skills

Electronic test hardware design

Embedded systems

Bed-of-nails/flying probe/ICT

JTAG/SWD bootstrapping

PCB layout CAD (Altium/Cadence)

MES/PLM integration

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Related field

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence

CircuitStudio

Job description

Performance Drone Works (PDW) is seeking a Senior Test Engineer, Electronics Manufacturing to join our Huntsville team. You will lead electrical test system design for PCBAs, wiring harnesses, and production validation in internal and CM environments, ensuring reliability for our sUAS platforms.

You will own test fixtures lifecycle, specify testing requirements, coordinate with hardware and manufacturing, and drive continuous improvement of test throughput, yield, and quality as production