Associate Engineer, MTT
Description
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!
About the role:
This new architecture means that we have an opportunity to completely rethink the architecture of our test environment.
The Test Engineer is responsible for being the team leader for Manufacturing test process development from NPI through EOL to ensure it meets the highest quality standards in the industry. You will work closely with these test organizations to ensure a seamless strategy:
- Design verification – Confirm that a new product design meets requirements
- Compliance – Certify that our products meet compliance standards
- Reliability – Warrant product is reliable over its lifetime
- System verification – Validate that Enphase products interoperate as a system
The job consists of understanding the basic technology, understanding the needs of each of the groups and coordinate development of a test framework that can be used for all these functions with a maximum amount of reuse while fulfilling vastly different goals of the Enphase manufacturing test hardware and software to be deployed at Enphase’s various production facilities. Enphase’s products often carry relatively long warranty in the field; therefore, our manufacturing process and test must support the quality required. This often results in unique product features, disciplined manufacturing processes, and rigorous testing.
What you will do:
- Working with geographically dispersed teams consisting of Electronics Hardware Engineers, Software Engineers and Engineering Technicians
- Evaluating Marketing and Engineering Requirement Documents to develop robust Test Requirements that drive reliability while reducing the cost of test.
- Evaluating applicable standards for each product and designing test platforms to implement required testing.
- Developing and documenting test system design and maintenance routines, including calibration, replacement schedule, repeatability test, etc.
- Coordinating closely with the Mfg. SW Development Team to design and ensure a fault-tolerant test system.
- Maintaining, debugging and supporting the production facilities where the test systems are deployed.
- Driving closed loop response to factory and field failures (RMA) by identifying test gaps and opportunities
Who you are and what you bring:
- B.E./M. Tech. in Electrical or Systems Engineering, or other suitable educational background or work experience
- 3 years of experience designing, deploying and maintaining test equipment and fixtures for a production environment
- Experience working in testing teams in developing test platforms.
- Strong Python programming skills and use of SVN tools (Mercurial or Git)
- Database experience (SQL or similar)
- Expertise with power electronics
- Extensive experience with rack and stack test platforms
- Knowledge of battery chemistry and technology is a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills