Senior Verification Engineer - Toronto
ecobee
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Creating and executing engineering design verification test plans
- Preparing and executing reliability test plans to increase confidence in warranty and service life targets
- Conducting Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALT) and Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) to expose device vulnerabilities and improve designs
- Perform engineering assessments of test and verification activities against real-world field applications
- Designing and building test instrumentation systems to standardize and automate experiments and data capture of many concurrent DUT simultaneously
- Conducting and reviewing Gage repeatability and reproducibility analyses as well as yield reports and production test issue resolution
- Assist with root causing factory issues with a background of manufacturing processes and design knowledge to isolate variables and find system or component level issues
- PFMEA's and performing assessments and trade-offs of test coverage to conceptualize production test suites for high volume mass production test
- Executing on cost-benefit analyses and risk assessments to optimize production test decisions and coverage
- Documentation and report creation of tests completed
- Analyzing experimentation results and engineering reports from others to issue approval or rejection
- Identifying component alternates and creating test plans to validate substitutions to reduce BOM cost or mitigate supply chain issues
- Environmental, ESD, Surge, EFT and compliance testing of new and existing products
- Researching, identifying and executing on applicable UL, CSA, IEC or other specifications relevant to product development
- Prototyping of new circuits before inclusion into production programs
- Creating of Production Test Plans, Test scripts and Production Test Fixtures
- Collaborating with teammates to improve and guide all test/verification activities (reports, methods, procedures, designs, fixtures) and creating proposals of ideas
- Providing recommendations on design integrity and issuing recommendation to proceed to mass production
- Identify and escalate major design risk factors; identify, validate and propose alternate suggestions with concern for cross-functional impact (feature set, cost targets, design scope, etc.)
- Designing Printed Circuit Boards intended to prototype new circuits, create fixtures, development tools or other uses
- Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics (or similar)
- 5+ years industry experience in electrical hardware product development with emphasis on consumer electronics
- Must have been involved with full product development and high volume production
- design concept, circuit design, multiple stages of prototype development and test, entry into manufacturing, test fixtures
- identify and resolve design issues resulting in more reliable product and easing production
- identify and resolve field failures and work back improvements into the design.
- Experience in Hardware design, validation and test execution
- Proven experience in Schematic design and review, Printed Circuit Board review
- Printed Circuit Board review and knowledge of PCB layout fundamentals
- Hardware debugging and root cause analysis
- Analog and high-speed digital circuit analysis
- Familiarity with oscilloscope, DAQ, DMM, thermal chamber, spectrum analyzer, VNA among other lab equipment
- Understanding of testing principles and impact on results
- Solder and rework fine pitch electronic SMT components including 0201, XDFN, TSOT
- Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes
- Understanding of full product design principles, thermal transfer, etc. and impact on electronics
- Knowledge of embedded systems, architecture, operating states, and optimizations
- Strong industry awareness of critical parts manufacturers
- Background in PCB layout including optimization of power distribution networks, stack-up design, high-speed interfaces and high voltage systems
- Experience in low power, IoT sensor design
- CPU architectures, 8 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit experience
- Memory architectures, eMMC, DDR3, DDR4 etc.
- Embedded Linux and C++ development, Ability to write C++ for MCU applications
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation
- A 30-minute phone/video call with a member in Talent Acquisition
- A 1.5 hour interview with our Hiring Manager Sr Manager, Hardware Engineer with Director, Hardware Engineer and our VP of Hardware Engineering. This conversation will revolve around getting to know each other, the backgrounds and professional journeys encompassing some technical discussion
- The next step will be to do a technical case study and present in a final virtual interview of 1 hour. We normally give candidates a week to complete the case study.
- Be part of something big: Get to work in a fresh, dynamic, and ever-growing industry.
- Make a difference for the environment: Make a sustainable impact while on your daily job, and after it through programs like ecobee acts.
- Expand your career: Learn with our in-house learning enablement team, and enjoy our generous professional learning budget.
- Put people first: Benefit from competitive salaries, health benefits, and a progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off).
- Play a part on an exceptional culture: Enjoy a fun and casual workplace with an open concept office, located at Queens Quay W & York St. ecobee Leeds is based at our riverside office on the Calls.
- Celebrate diversity: Be part of a truly welcoming workplace. We offer a mentorship program and bias training.