System Validation & Automation Engineer III (Senior)

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Creating and executing engineering design verification test plans

Preparing and executing reliability test plans to increase confidence in warranty and service life targets

Conducting Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALT) and Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) to expose device vulnerabilities and improve designs

Perform engineering assessments of test and verification activities against real-world field applications

Designing and building test instrumentation systems to standardize and automate experiments and data capture of many concurrent DUT simultaneously

Conducting and reviewing Gage repeatability and reproducibility analyses as well as yield reports and production test issue resolution

Assist with root causing factory issues with a background of manufacturing processes and design knowledge to isolate variables and find system or component level issues

PFMEA’s and performing assessments and trade-offs of test coverage to conceptualize production test suites for high volume mass production test

Executing on cost-benefit analyses and risk assessments to optimize production test decisions and coverage

Documentation and report creation of tests completed

Analyzing experimentation results and engineering reports from others to issue approval or rejection

Identifying component alternates and creating test plans to validate substitutions to reduce BOM cost or mitigate supply chain issues

Environmental, ESD, Surge, EFT and compliance testing of new and existing products

Researching, identifying and executing on applicable UL, CSA, IEC or other specifications relevant to product development

Prototyping of new circuits before inclusion into production programs

Creating of Production Test Plans, Test scripts and Production Test Fixtures

Collaborating with teammates to improve and guide all test/verification activities (reports, methods, procedures, designs, fixtures) and creating proposals of ideas

Providing recommendations on design integrity and issuing recommendation to proceed to mass production

Identify and escalate major design risk factors; identify, validate and propose alternate suggestions with concern for cross-functional impact (feature set, cost targets, design scope, etc.)

Designing Printed Circuit Boards intended to prototype new circuits, create fixtures, development tools or other uses

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics (or similar)

5+ years industry experience in electrical hardware product development with emphasis on consumer electronics

Must have been involved with full product development and high volume production design concept, circuit design, multiple stages of prototype development and test, entry into manufacturing, test fixtures

identify and resolve design issues resulting in more reliable product and easing production

identify and resolve field failures and work back improvements into the design.

Experience in Hardware design, validation and test execution

Proven experience in Schematic design and review, Printed Circuit Board review

Printed Circuit Board review and knowledge of PCB layout fundamentals

Hardware debugging and root cause analysis

Analog and high-speed digital circuit analysis

Familiarity with oscilloscope, DAQ, DMM, thermal chamber, spectrum analyzer, VNA among other lab equipment

Understanding of testing principles and impact on results

Solder and rework fine pitch electronic SMT components including 0201, XDFN, TSOT

Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes

Understanding of full product design principles, thermal transfer, etc. and impact on electronics

Knowledge of embedded systems, architecture, operating states, and optimizations

Strong industry awareness of critical parts manufacturers

Bonus Points if You Can Bring this to the Table:

Background in PCB layout including optimization of power distribution networks, stack-up design, high-speed interfaces and high voltage systems

Experience in low power, IoT sensor design

CPU architectures, 8 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit experience

Memory architectures, eMMC, DDR3, DDR4 etc.

Embedded Linux and C++ development, Ability to write C++ for MCU applications

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation