Job Description
Title: Thermal Test Engineer
Contract (C2C)
Bay Area, CA (Onsite)
Job Summary:
- Responsibilities: Design, build, instrument, and automate testing equipment for electrical, thermal, and mechanical testing
- Work together with Design Engineers, Reliability scientists, Material scientists, Quality, and Service to identify failure modes and generate design validation and reliability test plans
- Perform component-level, system-level, and vehicle-level validation and reliability testing, simulating realistic and accelerated dynamic and environmental conditions
- Collaborate with test technicians as peers to achieve test objectives
- Investigate Power Electronics assembly and subassembly failures to drive product development and test improvement
- Identify and execute experiments targeting new technologies or critical failures
- Interface and simulate complex vehicular systems to validate firmware/hardware interactions
- Create novel ways to apply skills learned in the test lab to benefit vehicle products
Skills Required:
- Basic working knowledge of Analog, Digital, and Power Electronics Circuits, general knowledge in Power Electronics, DCDC or DCAC Converters, High Voltage Circuits, Motor Drive/Control Circuit, Sensing circuits, and Microcontrollers is preferred
- Working experience with electrical test equipment (such as multimeters, DAQs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and function generator) and hand tools and power tools
- Familiar with an object-oriented coding language and scripting (Python, MATLAB, etc.), experience in Python and data visualization is preferred
- Comfort with EDA software of Altium, OrCAD, Cadence, Eagle or equivalent. Working knowledge of mechanical CAD software of SolidWorks, CATIA or equivalent is preferred
- Basic understanding of Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Fluids, Heat Transfer, Measurement and Instrumentation, and Linear Circuits