Title: Hardware Quality Engineer
Location: Cupertino, CA
Company: Lab126

Lab126 develops innovative consumer-centric product solutions. As an Engineer at Lab126 you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design and bring to market innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. /A>

The Role:

The Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer acts as a key partner to the design team through ownership of the test and compliance function for each new design and for each sustaining project at the Company. This ownership includes, but is not limited to, maintaining and updating a hardware test plan, and making timely recommendations that directly improve product designs based upon a comprehensive understanding of previous test failures. Further this individual acts as the Company’s expert on the IEEE1275 process, providing expert guidance to all cross-functional leads within Lab126 as well as partners and outside vendors.

As elements of your daily work, you will:

• Assemble and compile a hardware test plan from input provided by an internal inter-disciplinary team.
• Drive the ODM and/or CM as appropriate to ensure all hardware tests are performed on time for each design phase
• Track and analyze hardware test results
• Debug and find a root cause for each HW test failure uncovered from the testing cycle
• Report status to the hardware development team on all hardware test results
• Maintain and keep up to date all hardware test results by working with the local test lab or ODM/CM
• Assure that all IEEE1725 requirements are met. Work with functional leads and external partners or vendors to execute IEEE 1725 compliance. Attend IEEE 1725 meetings and advise the design team on all new testing, documentation and submission requirements.
• Be conversant with regulatory and RF engineering test requirements.
• Run hardware tests at the local test lab to confirm a new electrical design, mechanical design, or re-design.
• Support the design and validation of all required changes (continuous improvement, cost reduction, obsolescence)
• Plan and manage the roll-in of changes, and be sure to track each change and associated test result of any change on the hardware test plan
• Work with and travel to ODM partners in Asia

Required Experience:

• RF or wireless product design and test experience is required
• At least 5 years of design or Hardware Quality Assurance experience on portable consumer electronic devices
• Background in Electrical Engineering or Hardware Engineering
• Experienced in high volume manufacture environments
• Debug, fault-finding or analysis skills
• Strong analytical skills including statistical analysis
• At least 3 years of experience with WAN/WiFi compliance testing and requirements
• Strong with MS Office applications including Excel

Education:
Bachelor’s degree with technical focus, Masters Degree Preferred