System Design Quality Assurance Engineer

"ALL our jobs are US based and candidates must be in the US with valid US Work Authorization. Please apply on our website directly." Job Title:System Design Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Germnatown, MD

Employment Type: (Full-time or contract)

Duration

: The System Design Quality Assurance Engineer will perform Reliability predictions using tools such as Sherlock and PTC Windchill Relex and validate using

"hands on physical test labs and Physics of Failures techniques

(primarily on modems & antennas The Engineer will participate in the Aerospace Concurrent Engineering development team, utilizing applicable aspects of the Quality Management System Standard AS9100D.

The Engineer will participate in developments of electronic modules, IP & LTE based geostationary and low earth orbit satellite electronic transports, microwave transceivers and networking equipment used in high reliability aviation markets. This includes participating in contract requirements review, design, development, production readiness, deployment and field reliability tracking.

Working with the Concurrent Engineering product development teams, the Engineer will hold the following responsibilities:

Determine Service Design Margin

Characterize performance beyond the specification limits and specified operational & survival environments.

HALT plan design, perform testing and analyze results

Calculating acceleration factors from known industry models and extrapolate test results to equivalent life under normalized use conditions.

Perform root cause failure analysis and corrective actions to the designs/development processes

Generate system problem reports and working closely with HW/SW Engineering to resolve

Publish written report of results and make Ship Authorization recommendations.

Requirements

BS Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering;

10 years + experience hardware testing including the following: basic circuit, RF and digital HW design practices, Reliability Prediction, Accelerated Life Testing, SW development tools for Lab automation such as LabView, RF/Microwave Operation and Design, Internet Protocol test tools such as AXIA IX Load, Spirent Avalanche & Landslide, iPerf, SamKnows.

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