Principal Digital Product Test Engineer Verified today
About the role
You will provide hands-on engineering support in a high-paced production environment, ensuring product performance, yield optimization, and reliability. This role focuses on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, design-to-production transitions, and process improvement across RF and digital hardware.
What you will do
- Provide hands-on technical support for PCBA and RF/microwave products during production, ensuring smooth manufacturing operations.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis of PCBA and RF-related production issues, including yield losses, test failures, and product deviations.
- Support hardware/software debugging of digital logic, embedded systems, and mixed-signal interfaces.
- Support Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and transition to consistent production.
- Review designs, drawings, and working plans to improve products and manufacturing process, including Root Cause and Corrective Action for production support problems.
- Perform engineering work and applied research with Test Equipment group to ensure quality standards and functional objectives are met.
- Collaborate with design engineering teams to influence DFM (Design for Manufacturability) and DFT (Design for Test) practices.
- Drive process improvements to enhance product performance, reduce costs, and increase throughput.
- Monitor yields, test margin and resolution of technical issues impacting production.
- Investigate and propose solutions to complex problems involving the design and production of complex digital, RF, and baseband communications hardware.
- Lead problem containment and structured root cause and corrective action investigations.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science (BS) degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
- Minimum of 9 years of relevant experience supporting a production environment.
- Experience in the design, production and test of microwave communications hardware and assemblies.
- Strong knowledge of PCB-level debugging, embedded systems, and hardware/software integration.
- Excellent troubleshooting, data analysis, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate across functional teams with a proactive approach to addressing technical challenges on the production floor.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
Preferred experience
- Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, or industrial electronics industries.
- Expertise crossing both Engineering and Operations domains.
What we offer
Full-time employment includes company stock options and benefits: health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.
US export compliance
To conform with United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee or refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.