Manufacturing Test Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design and build automated test equipment and software to improve product quality and manufacturing yield for high-volume, precision photonics products. You will work hands-on with real impact on production efficiency and customer outcomes. You will ensure galvanometers, scan heads, servo boards and subsystems meet specifications at scale, using data-driven insights to drive improvements. You will collaborate with operators, supervisors, R&D and manufacturing engineering to advance yield and usability. This is a chance to shape testing capabilities in mission-critical laser technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, document and maintain automated test equipment for production
• Develop test software for data acquisition, simulation, control, and quality control
• Analyse test data to drive product and test improvement
• Debug production testers and manufacturing fixtures for galvanometers and high-precision scan heads
• Work closely with operators, supervisors, R&D, quality and manufacturing engineering
• Identify and implement yield, usability and productivity improvements
• Ensure compliance with quality, environmental and occupational safety requirements

Key requirements

• Professional LabVIEW development in a production environment
• Hands-on design and support of automated test systems
• Strong hardware troubleshooting and debugging capability
• SQL database programming and maintenance
• Data acquisition and signal processing, time and frequency domains

• Clear communicator with engineers and production teams
• Proactive about continuous improvement
• Data-driven and practical
• Analog and digital circuit design and analysis
• Test instruments, signal conditioning, power electronics
• National Instruments hardware, PXI, DAQ, RIO

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