Hardware Test Engineer - New Graduate

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sensus

Hardware Test Engineer - New Graduate

Morrisville, NC
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

    The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.

     

    Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

    THE ROLE: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a  New Graduate Hardware Test Engineer to develop and execute test plans to determine the compliance and reliability of Sensus products and systems. Products tested include Water, Gas, and Electric meters, Automatic Meter Infrastructure (AMI) smart points, in-home-displays, street-lighting solutions, network communication base stations and more. The candidate will also work closely with hardware, mechanical and firmware developers to insure the full integration of quality products.

    JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Work closely with Research and Development teams to determine/predict component and system life in defined operating environments to ensure product reliability and extended operating life of the product
    • Develop test systems and fixtures for a diverse product portfolio, and use them to execute product performance testing for components, PCBAs and complete unit assemblies on a wide variety of AC and DC powered products intended for indoor and outdoor environments.
    • Work with cross-functional teams to understand customer usage and expectations and use the data to continuously improve test and analysis practices and be a Voice of the Customer (VOC) to internal design and quality teams
    • Perform a variety of product tests including temperature, humidity, packaged and unpackaged vibration, shock, drop and impact tests, HALT, Salt Fog, rain/dust and other environmental stress tests including.
    • Perform metrology accuracy testing of gas, water and electric meters
    • Conduct radio and RF characterization testing of transceiver products and base stations
    • Testing of products to North American and international certification standards
    • Use of Six Sigma techniques to define critical design parameters, development of tests and analysis of performance data to determine impacts on long-term product reliability or compliance performance
    • Coordinate with external test-houses to conduct testing and analysis when necessary
    • Facilitation or participation in DFMEA of electrical and mechanical systems and board level trouble-shooting
    • Develop subassembly/system level reliability test plans (including sample size, test duration time, test and measurement methodology) and utilize test automation to improve efficiency and accuracy where applicable.
    • Analyze testing data and author defect tracking items and reliability test reports
    • Determine acceleration factors for reliability testing of critical subassemblies and systems to use with HALT/ALT demonstrated life testing and Weibull life prediction tools.
    • Determine calculated MTBF/MTTF of critical subassemblies and systems and develop correlation with field return failure rates, demonstrated test results and drive product reliability improvement
    • Utilization of statistical and reliability software tools (i.e. Minitab, Jump, Reliasoft or Relex)

    REQUIREMENTS:

    • BS/MS Degree (Electrical or Mechanical Engineering) or equivalent (combination of Associates Degree / military training or relevant work experience considered)
    • Zero to 1 year of related test and verification work experience preferred
    • Relevant class/lab training in electro-mechanical hardware testing; testing over various environmental stresses (temperature, humidity, vibration, voltage, current) a plus
    • Operation of Spectrum Analyzer, Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Hi-Pot and ESD and anechoic chamber test equipment a plus
    • Test automation programming experience preferred; experience with C#, Java, or C++ programming languages
    • Experience with MS Office (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
    • A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • RF testing/analysis experience also a plus

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