Board Level Validation Engineer

Job-ID Reference Quality Engineering Strategy and Planning - Description of Needed Services:
We seek contractors with skills to cover these three main areas, all under the umbrella of board bring-up & validation:
A. "Smoke test" of new boards, prior to internal distribution
B. Design verification
C. Board testing for volume distributions ("MTE")
General Description:
1. "Smoke test" of new boards, prior to internal distribution:
a. Opens/shorts
b. Power rails, current draw
c. Measurement of basic life of subsystems using test code provided by FW team
d. Documentation of passed/failed boards
e. Programming images before distribution, targeted to customers as needed
2. Design verification:
a. Measuring signal integrity of high speed lines:
i. Probing of high-speed lines, on the board itself
ii. Measuring signal integrity: looking at signal rise and fall times, ringing, over-shoot, under-shoot.
iii. Using oscilloscopes, signal integrity analyzers, possibly protocol analyzers
iv. Direct probing of the boards, compensation for scope probe paras
Primary Skill Test Automation Strategy