Staff Product Launch Test Engineer

The role

This is a hands-on manufacturing test engineering role on the production floor. You will own production test for RVTech electronic control units at contract manufacturers, including ICT, EOL functional test, and production flashing.

What you will do

• Own production test strategy, specifications and coverage for assigned ECU programs
• Drive industrialization of ECU flashing from protocol selection through volume qualification
• Lead DFT reviews with Design Engineering and contract manufacturers
• Specify, commission and qualify testers and fixtures at CM sites
• Act as receiving customer for EOL hardware and test sequences
• Validate hardware and sequence releases in the lab before production
• Identify, root cause and close production test failures
• Lead component-level failure analysis of PCBA and module failures
• Represent manufacturing test at every build phase from proto to ramp-up
• Coordinate manufacturing test activities across contract manufacturer sites

Required qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of ICT and/or EOL functional test equipment in high-volume electronics manufacturing
• Experience at a Tier 1 automotive supplier, EMS / contract manufacturer, or OEM plant
• Ability to debug to component level using schematic, oscilloscope, DMM, and boundary scan
• Production programming / flashing of embedded devices via JTAG, DAP, ISP or bootloader flows
• 6+ years in specification, build, commissioning and sustaining of manufacturing test equipment
• Bachelor's in Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics, Manufacturing or related engineering field plus 6 years experience; or Master's plus 4 years; or PhD plus 3 years; or equivalent experience
• Track record of carrying a product through EVT, DVT, PVT, SOP and ramp-up
• Multi-variable root cause analysis of production test failures
• Running FAT and SAT acceptance of test equipment and sequences
• Working across engineering / contract manufacturing interface on PCBA production quality
• Knowledge of automotive quality systems: PFMEA, control plan, PPAP, MSA, and IATF 16949 / VDA
• Willingness and ability to travel to contract manufacturer, proto-house and plant locations, domestic and international, as needed

Nice to have

• Experience supporting VWG or another German OEM as a customer
• Experience defining manufacturing test cases from DFMEA / PFMEA inputs
• Test data management at scale (cloud data lake, AWS or equivalent)
• Second language useful at CM sites (Spanish, Mandarin)

Benefits

• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology for software-defined vehicles.