Job Title: Sr. Hardware/Quality Assurance Sustaining Engineer
Position Type: Contract to possible hire. 5 months guaranteed, then it may extend or go permanent.
Location: Canton, MA 02021
Primary Skills: Debug Electrical, Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools. e.g., Engineering Change Orders (ECO), Part Number Requests (PNR), Product Change Notifications (PCN).
SUMMARY:
Coordinates the qualification/quality and sustained engineering efforts associated with Engineering's custom designed servers as well as commodity servers and server components.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Validate the performance of server electronics, mechanicals, and user documentation against Application Deployment Requirements (ADR), Marketing Requirements Document (MRD) and/or Statements of Work (SOW).
- Validate features and performance using accelerated stress and margining test methodologies.
- Define and execute test strategies for the qualification of server components including but not limited to disk drives, peripheral cards, processors, and memory.
- Release components for use in new and existing designs. Create documentation where required.
- Manage new product introduction, and existing product changes using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools. e.g., Engineering Change Orders (ECO), Part Number Requests (PNR), Product Change Notifications (PCN).
- Support the validation and documentation of prototype platforms for use by customers in early-stage evaluations as well as provision systems for functional regulatory lab tests.
- Perform level 3 failure analysis to determine root cause on field returns and manufacturing yield issues requiring escalation from Support. Work directly with suppliers when required to address design or quality issues.
- Collaborate with quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production personnel Engineering to address product issues.
- Learn about company's business as appropriate. Shows up to work on time and attends work as scheduled.
- All other duties as requested by supervisor or department head.
COMPETENCY QUALIFICATIONS:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. If an employee does not meet the required competency level in any area, a required development training plan will be implemented.
Job-Specific Competencies:
(Education and/or years of experience; technical and/or analytical; software or applications; department and/or position specific; internal or external certifications required)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent, plus 3-5 years direct industry experience.
- Associate’s degree in engineering or equivalent, plus 8-10 years direct industry experience.
- Proficient in use of MS office applications, including Word, Excel, Visio, and Project.
- Ability to coordinate with a team of engineers to create, execute and review appropriate test strategies.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of Windows and Linux OS operating in a server environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the use of standardized computer server test software.
- Experience in the debug of electrical systems comprised of high-speed digital and analog power subsystems.
- Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Bus Analyzers.
- Communication Analyzers; Ethernet, Fiber Channel, USB, iSCSI/SATA/SAS.
- Knowledge of PC based server systems, their architectures, and the various peripheral components.
- Server class processors and chipsets; Intel Pentium, Xeon; AMD Celeron, Opteron.
- Interface and I/O standards; ATA/SATA, SAS/iSCSI, Ethernet, Fiber Channel, USB, RS232, I2C IPMI, ATCA, PCI-E, etc.
- Server Components, Hard Disk Drives/SSDs/Flash; IDE, PATA, SATA, SAS, iSCSI, FC, Network Interface Cards, Server/Shelf Management controllers, RAID Controllers, Packet Processors, Telephony.
- Main Logic Board/Server subcomponents; BIOS, BMC, IPMI management, PCI-E Risers, Power Supplies, Cooling Fans, Backplanes/Midplanes, etc.
- Ability to generate accurate and thorough test plans.
- Ability to understand basic thermal analysis of electronics.
- Ability to understand basic electrical principals.
- Ability to document, track and document project progress and work independently as well as on a team.
- Ability to follow all applicable Business Management System (BMS) processes.
Management Competencies:
(Management experience required)
- Ability to manage product qualification projects.
Core Competencies:
(Other core requirements including communication, presentation, language, math, and reasoning skills)
- Ability to read, write and speak English.
- Ability to compose reports and correspondence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Know and follow established company core values.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; to sit, stand, walk; and to talk and hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- Lifting Requirement: 50 pounds
- Lifting Limitations: 50 pounds
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
