About the Role
General Scope:
The position is an opportunity to give suitably prepared candidates intensive exposure to the test engineering profession as a possible career path. At the same time it gives Datest the opportunity to meet and evaluate eligible test engineering candidates, exposes them to our business and its activities in a hands-on, interactive way, and creates a pool of qualified candidates from which future Datest employees may be drawn.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Expose motivated candidates to as many aspects of our business as possible over the course of an intense, 90-day summer session, or a 120-day Fall/Winter or Winter/Spring session.
• “Shadow” Datest engineers and other personnel throughout the working day in order to become familiar with their responsibilities and task. Become conversant in the language and lexicon of PCBA testing and test engineering.
• Attend meetings with customers and key suppliers, together with other Datest personnel.
• Learn the functioning of the various principal Datest test and inspection systems (Keysight 3070, SPEA 4060, Dage Ruby, Agilent 5DX, VJT Microfocus CT System, etc.)
• Learn about and perform troubleshooting of failed PCBAs.
• Learn how to capture and interpret Xray and CT scanning images
• Learn how to read, interpret, and create a test design from a customer’s statement of work (SOW). Learn how to distinguish what is doable in a test specification vs what is not doable.
• Learn about Quality Management Systems and their administration.
• Learn about ESD control in the workplace and associated procedures.
• Learn about workplace safety, especially around ionizing radiation (Xrays)
• Speak with customers about test-related details, problems, and challenges.
Qualifications / Skills:
• Progress toward obtaining a bachelor’s or AA degree (typically a third- or fourth-year student) from an accredited institute of higher education in an engineering or related discipline such as electrical engineering, materials science/materials engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, physics, mathematics, or computer science. Under certain circumstances work experience or prior training (e.g. military service) may be considered as a substitute for academic experience. Also under certain circumstances non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) candidates demonstrating exemplary interest, aptitude, and persuasive energy may be considered. English and economics majors sometimes become test engineers; no one is excluded on account solely of their choice of major.
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn, especially about why systems work, and why they fail. Willingness to apply problem-solving skills to system failures.
• Familiarity and comfort using Microsoft Office Suite of software
• Comfort working in a multitasking environment with shifting priorities. Priorities often shift rapidly with changing customer requirements
• Exposure to some or all of the following, in an academic or work setting:
>> Digital Systems
>> Analog Systems
>> Xray and CT scanning technology
>> High-Level Programming Languages such as C++, Python, and Raspberry Pi
>> Engineering software such as Matlab, Spice, Autocad, and Solidworks
>> Imaging reconstruction and interpretive software such as Fraunhofer Volex and Volume Graphics VGStudio and VGStudio MAX
>> Circuit Board Manufacture and Assembly
>> Lab Tools and Instruments, such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, waveform and function generators, breadboards, soldering irons and associated tools
>> Report-writing and delivery of reports to customers. Explanation/defense of reports in certain situations (with support from Datest engineering staff)