Manufacturing Test Engineer

At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning.

We are looking for a highly motivated manufacturing test engineering professional, who can work alongside our Design, Quality and Manufacturing teams to create infrastructure needed to ensure that products shipped to customers are defect free. This position will require you to leverage your knowledge of Manufacturing, Manufacturing Test, Hardware design and Software development to create innovative, and groundbreaking solutions that are required to test today's complex hardware.

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years experience in the test engineering profession
• 5+ years experience developing manufacturing test software using Labview/Teststand
• Python Programming experience including instrument control, interfacing with SQL databases, and source management best practices
• Experience in hardware design an asset
• Demonstrated ability to work independently to achieve desired results from general objectives
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with contractors, and engineering teams worldwide
• Excellent communication skills: listening, speaking, and in writing; able to express thoughts and concepts to a variety of people with different skill levels
• Experience with communication systems, radio/microwave frequency, and/or vsat systems is a plus

Pay Range: $90,000-$120,000

The ST Engineering iDirect salary range for this position is intended to provide a general guideline for compensation. Actual compensation may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the duties and responsibilities of the role, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and other business or legal considerations. The posted range is not a guarantee of compensation.

New Product Introduction (NPI) Responsibilities

• →Working with the hardware design engineering teams, define an efficient test strategy for boards, modules, and systems. This encompasses the definition of test hardware, test fixtures, and embedded test resources within the product to improve testability
• →Provide level of effort estimates to the NPI product manager to support scheduling of development and factory introduction activity
• →Develop manufacturing test software within a LabVIEW/Teststand/Python environment
• →Actively participate in the definition and evolution of the manufacturing test software environment

Factory Sustaining Responsibilities

• →Support production activity within ST Engineering iDirect by helping to resolve production issues as they occur, with emphasis on understanding and resolving the root cause of the problem
• →identify opportunities for manufacturing test cost reduction, such as test yield improvements, and test time reductions, without impacting outgoing product quality
• →Work with our IT team to evaluate and improve our data collection, and test metric reporting capabilities
• →Represent Manufacturing test at Business Review meetings with teams at our manufacturing sites