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Product Certification & Test Engineer
Location: Syracuse, NY
Long Term
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Product Certification & Test Engineer to support product certification, compliance, validation and test-lab activities for electrical and electronic products.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in UL/product safety compliance, certification testing, test planning, pre-compliance, reliability testing and production/test engineering. Experience with UL 60730-1 or similar product safety standards is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead/support product certification and compliance activities for electrical and electronic products.
- Perform compliance gap analysis and identify applicable safety and certification requirements.
- Support UL/CSA product safety certification activities and coordinate with external certification/testing laboratories.
- Develop certification strategies, test plans, procedures and test cases.
- Support pre-compliance and formal certification testing.
- Support End-of-Line (EOL) electrical testing and production test strategy.
- Execute/coordinate electrical, functional, environmental and reliability testing.
- Troubleshoot test failures and perform root-cause analysis.
- Support PCBA and system-level verification and validation.
- Support prototype bring-up, design verification and production transition.
- Work with test labs, manufacturing and engineering teams during certification and production release.
- Support test fixture/jig development and production test setups.
- Review technical documentation, test reports and certification requirements.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Embedded, Mechanical, Manufacturing and Quality Engineering teams.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in product certification, compliance, verification/validation or test engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with UL/product safety certification and compliance.
- Experience with UL gap analysis, pre-compliance and formal certification activities.
- Strong understanding of electrical/electronic product testing and troubleshooting.
- Experience developing test plans, procedures and technical reports.
- Experience working with certification/test laboratories.
- Strong analytical and root-cause troubleshooting skills.
- Experience supporting products through prototype validation certification production lifecycle.
Preferred Skills
- UL 60730-1 experience.
- Knowledge of NEC requirements/codes relevant to electrical products.
- Experience with test-lab engineering.
- Experience with EOL electrical testing.
- Industrial/electrical/embedded/controls product experience.
- Manufacturing/test fixture development experience.
- Familiarity with FCC/IC/CE or other regulatory requirements.
- Reliability and environmental testing experience.
- Experience supporting US-based manufacturing/engineering teams.