Product Validation Test Engineer

Product Validation Test Engineer

TrellisWare launched in 2000 with an innovative culture striving to push technological boundaries in the area of wireless communications. We are now a worldwide leader in highly advanced algorithms, waveforms, and communications systems that range from small form factor radio products to fully integrated solutions. At TrellisWare, we connect passion with purpose and together we make an impact- on our careers, our company, and the world. And you can too. If you love to innovate and collaborate amid chaos and change, you belong at TrellisWare. Where the opportunity to serve is not a challenge but a gift. Where you're never going alone. Because there's too much at stake to go solo. Our Product Validation Team is seeking an onsite Product Validation Test Engineer. You would be responsible for working in our Product Test lab verifying and validating the latest advanced radio systems with emulators and test equipment. You will support challenging and exciting lab and field test tasks benchmarking the performance of the product in both emulated and real-world environments. You will deep dive into more challenging technical debugging and problem solving with SW and HW developers and product systems engineers. You will work on multiple product and technology development programs focusing on SW/HW design integration, verification, and validation. You will be responsible for specifying, designing, planning, reporting, and testing in the lab and field test environments. Enhancing cohesiveness and maintaining team morale is a responsibility of all our team members, as is the ambition for self-improvement and talent development. Through this dedication to unity and professional advancement, each team member is directly impacting the successful outcome of TrellisWare's deliverables and setting the tone for our core values of delivering excellence, pushing boundaries, and empowering people. The essential duties and responsibilities include: - Test, evaluate and analyze SW/HW integrated wireless communication systems. Focus on product level validation testing. - Summarize field test data and drive test reporting reviews to team leaders. - Support systems engineering of TrellisWare proprietary technologies and standards to design, document, and execute test cases. - Execution of field interoperability and performance validation testing in both mobile and stationary environments. - Top level log analysis, debugging and troubleshooting of field functional and performance issues. Responsible for debugging field failures and anomalies via log analysis and issue reproducibility. - Assessment of performance benchmarking to competitor/reference devices. - Provide technical analysis to ensure compliance. - Provide coaching, knowledge sharing, and competence building to Field Test team members. - Contribute to process improvement and planning for the Field Test Team. - Support test environment setup, configuration, and automation. - Support Product Test Lab inventory control and management. - Travel up to 25%. Mostly domestic and local to San Diego. - Coordinate Engineering support and triage for field issues reported by the Field Application Engineers and Sales Team. - Develops relationships with team members built on trust and respect. Education and work experience requirements are: - BSEE/BSCE or equivalent military experience in Telecommunication/Wireless Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Tactical Radio Communications - 3+ Years of relevant test experience. - 2+ Year of wireless communications experience. To be considered for this position, you would need to meet, at a minimum, the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed here: Fundamental knowledge of RF Technology, Radio Design and RF Test Equipment. Knowledge and experience with calculation of rf propagation and field testing of wireless radio transceivers. Experience with networking (OSI layer 3 and 4): UDP, TCP/IP networking and transport protocol Experience using test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, radio emulators, network analyzers, rf switch matrixes, and multimeters. Knowledge of the OSI 7 layers model. Test case design, planning, preparation, and execution.