Performance & Development Test Engineer

This is an amazing opportunity for an intelligent qualified Electronics Engineer to join a small but highly profitable and successful company, dealing with blue chip companies that use Semiconductors in their electronic devices.

Design for Test, Test Program Development, Testing and Order Fulfilment:

• Interpret and re-organise semiconductor device pinlist data and package outline drawings to construct test programs for ESD, Latch up and TLP testing as needed, liaising with the customer as necessary to clarify the testing requirement.
• Design any hardware needed for the implementation of ESD, Latch up and TLP testing, such as specialist power supplies or test fixture PCBs.
• Develop automated test programs for ESD, Latch up and TLP testing that will fulfil customer requirements, ensuring any powered up tests are run with the device in a stable state.
• Create and implement I-V curve tracing programs for ESD and Latch up testing as needed, ensuring the curves are stable before the stress tests commence.
• Conduct ESD, Latch Up and TLP testing in accordance with the relevant procedures, observing policies for the safe handling of devices under test at all times.
• Once testing is complete prepare and upload summary test reports and detailed test results data for download by and discussion/analysis with the customer.
• Make recommendations for additional testing that will help to debug results for the customer and provide further insight for device re-spin revisions.
• Periodically attend ESD committee meetings on behalf of the company to ensure testing standards evolve and always remain aligned with our business model.

Development Activities:

• Work with the Technical Director and other team members to undertake development projects from time to time, as dictated by the needs of the business.

Expertise, Experience, Qualifications and Training Desired:

• At least an upper second honours degree in electrical / electronic engineering or a related subject, ideally a first.
• A strong aptitude for and at least 1 year experience of ‘real world’ electronic circuit design, including debug.
• A minimum of 1 year of work experience in a commercial business, ideally with exposure to an electronic engineering, production, test or laboratory environment where accredited testing and/or calibration activities are undertaken.
• A minimum of 1 year of work experience in a customer centric environment, including direct contact with customers.
• Exposure to an ISO9001 certified or ISO17025 accredited Quality System operating environment where accurate documentation completion has been mandatory for compliance and contribution has been made to the development and/or implementation of policies, procedures and forms.
• Exposure to a range of electrical/electronic test equipment, including automated testers, power supplies, multi-meters, oscilloscopes.
• Exposure to some form of multi-layer PCB design layout software is desirable.
• Good IT skills – a high degree of competence working with PCs and MS Office applications.
• Practically orientated, with good eyesight, manual dexterity and awareness of static control issues/practices.
• Comply with all company policies, procedures and working practices, maintaining all documentation and office areas in a neat and tidy state, accessible when absent.

Continuous Improvement and Quality:

• Seek ways to improve personal performance at all times by reflecting on attitude, behaviour, actions and interaction with others.
• Contribute ideas and proposals to the development of the company, its products and services, whenever they become apparent, whether believed they will be viewed positively or not by others.
• Seek ways to improve the cost-performance ratio and revenue/profit-generating potential of the work handled.
• Formally document all policies and procedures that represent new or changed working practices from existing methodology using the Change Note System.
• Demonstrate leadership at all times, pulling your colleagues along if necessary to achieve the goals defined by specific projects.
• Be open minded, flexible, tolerant, honest and fair in all your dealings with others, treating them as though they were your customer and you their supplier to gain maximum buy-in, especially in relation to deadlines.
• Satisfy customers’ requirements with services that are at world-class standards of value for money, turn time and quality.
• Promptly address and resolve customer complaints with corrective and preventative action, ensuring the customer is kept informed of our progress at all times through to the successful conclusion.
• View the business through the eyes of the customer to ensure we maintain a ruthless focus on improving the quality of the services we deliver.
• Treat suppliers as potential business partners that can add value to the business, not as adversaries that simply supply components or assemblies at the lowest price.
• Reinforce the Quality ethos in all dealings, so that every supplier is given all the information they need to align with the needs of the company values, and those that demonstrate they do not wish to comply are replaced at the earliest opportunity.
• Demonstrate empathy where necessary, but be intolerant of sub-standard quality or delivery performance.