Senior Hardware Test Engineer

About Us

With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality.

Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses, fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market.

At ChargePoint, we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous, Charge Together, Love our Customers, Operate with Openness, and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day, align, and work together to build a brighter future for all of us.

Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come.

Reports To

Test Engineering Manager

What You Will Be Doing

ChargePoint is seeking a Hardware Test Engineer to join our Test Engineering team. Our test systems are deployed to our manufacturing locations and interact with our products’ software, electrical and mechanical components during the manufacturing process. The Hardware Test Engineer will work to ensure the streamlined development, deployment of common architecture and processes for all Test Systems.

This role is critical to the successful design, validation, and deployment of automated production testers at our key contract manufacturers (CMs) in Thailand and Malaysia to ensure all our electromechanical sub-assemblies and systems are manufactured, programmed, configured and assembled according to specifications. You will also work closely with internal cross-functional Hardware, Software, Quality, and Operations teams. You will also work closely with external teams from our manufacturing partners and tester vendors.

What You Will Bring To Chargepoint

This role will be responsible for the following activities

• Collaborate cross-functionally on test requirements through the entire product lifecycle
• Conduct and participate in PCBA and system-level schematic review to specify, design, and validate functional testers
• Analyze parametric and functional test results from manufacturing facilities 
• Analyze and debug tester failures and provide debug guidance to our CM partners and ensure proper training and documentation of test FA/CA processes
• Work with vendors to ensure equipment designs are as per specifications and proper acceptance testing and commissioning are executed  
• Implement, and debug new test platforms and evaluate test coverage with the broader internal engineering team and CM partners to ensure high yields and lower cycle times on the test lines
• Support CM partners on facilities requirements, installation, validation, and training for new test systems
• Perform periodic monitoring of test data for statistical trends to detect component, manufacturing and measurement system changes occurring through their lifecycles
• Drive towards better integrated test solutions and software code reuse

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Systems engineering or related field 
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in Test Engineering 
• Strong in the fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 
• Proficient with process integration of electromechanical systems
• Able to review, understand, and debug PCBA and system level schematics
• Experienced user of electronic test equipment such as DMMs, Power Supplies, RF test equipment and signal acquisition devices
• Familiar with communication protocols such as CAN, UART, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, etc.
• Ability to consolidate test requirements
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

  Bonus Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python (preferred) or C++
• Comfortable working in a Linux based environment for development and application deployment
• Experience building factory test stations for validating embedded devices
• Experience transitioning products from prototype to production in volume manufacturing
• Hands-on experience building and/or troubleshooting test fixtures/setups for mechanical and electronic products
• Experience with power electronics 
• Experience programming in Python (preferred) or C++
• Comfortable working in a Linux based environment for development and application deployment
• Experience building factory test stations for validating embedded devices
• Experience transitioning products from prototype to production in volume manufacturing
• Hands-on experience building and/or troubleshooting test fixtures/setups for mechanical and electronic products
• Experience with power electronics 

Location

Phetchaburi/Bangkok, Thailand

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company needs, we will contact you directly.

• ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. 
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