Hardware Test Development Engineer (high - speed Digital Tests / Labview)

Viavia Job Opportunity

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers' most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets. We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities

• New Product Introduction (NPI) for VIAVI's market-leading Computer Storage Test platform.
• Provide DFT direction to R&D at the concept stage of new product development.
• Test development and ongoing continuous improvement for the test solutions.
• Design, develop, and influence the various automated production systems required to implement the product test strategy.
• Devise the overall manufacturing and service and configuration strategy for new products and optimize manufacturing & service calibration and test.
• Detailed project planning to ensure that all production systems are developed, debugged, and validated in time for production pilot run.
• Partner with R&D and Manufacturing Engineering to develop contract manufacturing ready and reliable test systems, jigs & fixturing.
• Effective use of Gage R&R and measure system evaluation tools in NPI to ensure stable test system are deployed in manufacturing and service.
• Installation and validation of production systems at the final production facility.

Metrics

• Documented and defined product test strategy staring at product concept phase.
• Optimized test Cycle Time, while maintaining effective and agreed upon test coverage.
• Optimal test coverage and capability at specified budget constraints.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements

Personal skills/attributes and experience:

• Master of Science in Electrical or Optical Engineering or Physics.
• Minimum 4 years' experience developing automated tests, both for hardware and software.
• Knowledge High-Speed Digital Test environment / equipment.
• LabWindows CVI programming experience, LabVIEW.
• Experience with National Instruments TestStand is beneficial.
• Experienced in a structured programming language (such as C / C++).
• Python or other scripting-based programming experience.
• Experience in PCBA level test methods.
• SQL database programming experience for test record and data management.
• Demonstrated project planning/management skills.
• Process improvement and data analysis – knowledge of Lean principles or equivalent experience.
• Must be a self-starter, strong team player and demonstrate leadership skills.
• Ability to work with distributed international teams.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• Language – fluent in German and English.