Remote Senior Validation Engineer

Summary

Join our extraordinary team at ecobee, a rapidly growing global tech company headquartered in Canada, as a Senior Verification Engineer. You will be responsible for transforming innovative ideas from concept to prototype through to mass production, ensuring every product shipped is stamped with engineering approval for quality and reliability.

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Python or other scripting for embedded control and automation of testing
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Create proposals and abstracts of ideas for automations and verification test improvements, breakdown and execute steps to concept/development
• Designing and building test instrumentation systems to standardize and automate experiments and data capture of many concurrent DUT simultaneously
• Experience designing, building, and iterating on custom built automated verification fixtures to enhance repeatability, scope, and throughput of test coverage
• Building Python scripts, familiarity with SCPI commands/interfacing, analyzing and compiling large datasets of presenting information and analyses of tests
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Health benefits
• A progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off)
• Flexible hours
• Remote work, fully remote, or hybrid work environment