Instrumentation Lab Technician

Instrumentation Lab Technician

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience with advanced level soldering skills. Ability to perform PCB soldering/re-works on SMT resistors and capacitors (sizes 0402/0201)
• 1+ years of experience in one or more of the following: RMA analysis, failure analysis, PCB rework, board debug, board component replacement, reverse engineering or assembly and repair of faulty components
• 1+ years of experience identifying and debugging board level components

Responsibilities

• Laptop SoC/system power instrumentation
• Create a National Instruments DAQ (NIDAQ) config file, instrument notebook systems to enable power measurements
• Perform PCB re-works on pre-production boards
• Measure and debug performance workloads and benchmarks, such as Procyon, SPEC CPU 2017, WebXPRT, Geekbench, Cinebench
• Measure and debug power workloads and benchmarks, such as idle, video playback, MobileMark 25
• Call out any power and performance gaps vs expectations
• Align with other internal engineering technicians/teams and to ensure correct setup
• Coordinate with PnP Engineers on the team to understand the upcoming needs
• Coordinate with PnP Engineers to order all necessary equipment
• Maintain lab inventory of ordered items and in-house equipment

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical engineering/Electronics associates degree
• Motivated self-learner/self-starter and ability to quickly adapt to changes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and work with engineers to solve problems
• Knowledge of power delivery
• Knowledge of CPU micro-architecture (knowledge of x86 CPU micro-architecture)
• Ability to setup Windows OS systems from base image
• Knowledge of modern power delivery and thermal management techniques in high-performance and low power SOC designs
• Familiarity with ITP/JTAG scripts, board bring up, power measurements with DAQ
• Prior experience on setup for National Instruments DAQ or similar power capture equipment
• Familiarity of standard performance benchmarks and ability to analyze performance
• Familiarity with industry benchmarks (i.e. Procyon, SPEC, Speedometer, Cinebench, Geekbench, MobileMark, 3DMark, etc.)
• Prior experience with Windows products or other consumer electronics in a post-silicon engineering environment
• Laptop device/system platform and SoC component level power instrumentation
• Understand the basic concepts of power delivery and power measurements
• Proficiency and ability to organize data is a must