Hardware Automation Engineer

Join our South Burlington, Vermont team to help show the world what flexible manufacturing testing means. One of OnLogic’s differentiators is shipping computer systems however the customer wants; from the engineering perspective, that includes the hardware, custom BIOS settings, custom images, and more, leading to millions of possible permutations. Another is our commitment to testing 100% of the systems we ship. How can you automate production testing when no two products are the same? Come raise the bar with us as we do something no one else does!

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Engaging with Design, Validation, and Applications Engineers to understand what functionality is expected from any given component and create an appropriate test plan. Writing the needed test code and implementing it in the automation framework.
• Streamlining the New Product Introduction process by collaborating with the Validation Engineers to ensure tests being used in the development process are also suitable for use in production.
• Ensuring adequate production test capabilities are ready in time for release of all systems.
• Deeply understanding designs to evaluate tests, remedy test failures, and provide quick feedback to improve performance.
• Helping to meet production goals related to takt time by right-sizing test coverage, leveraging test parallelism, and advocating for shifting functional testing upstream to vendors, ODMs, and CMs.
• Embracing your responsibility to take ownership of the tests and platform in our brand-new automated test framework.
• Documenting your work.
• Giving feedback to the design team so they know how to make the products we design more testable (DfM/DfT).

The team you will be joining:

Our IT team touches every aspect of our business and each of our day to day lives here at OnLogic. Made up of software developers, infrastructure and security experts, systems and network engineers and business technology professionals, our IT team is constantly working to improve our internal systems to make our lives easier, while optimizing our website to do the same for our customers. From the technology we use to do our jobs, to the infrastructure that supports the way we build, test and ship our products, our IT team keeps our business running smoothly.

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Requirements

• Love of hardware. Even though you’ll be living in software, it’s all for the success of the hardware so you need to understand it and enjoy being hands-on.
• Understanding of and experience with software frameworks and scripting languages. Preferably bash and python.
• Knowledge of lower-level Linux conventions and standard Linux tooling.
• Experience in a production test environment, required.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, micro-services and standard communication protocols between them.
• Bachelor’s Degree or comparable experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Who we're looking for:

• Superior ability to prioritize concurrent tasks, manage your time, communicate project milestones, and execute to a plan for yourself and cross-functional team members.
• A leader with a mind for continuous improvement and an eye for DfT.
• Comfortable regularly sharing knowledge and collaborating with a cross-functional team of people equally excited to enhance products and processes.
• A detail-oriented person with an understanding of how a product will be used to ensure components come together to produce useful systems.

Who we are: 

OnLogic is growing, and we want to give you the same opportunity to grow in your career! We design and manufacture specialized computers and hardware solutions for companies all over the world, helping them to make the seemingly impossible possible. Our computers are designed to work where others would fail, and it's our vision to be the first choice in industrial computing. To make that vision a reality, we've built a team of ambitious problem solvers, guided by the company's core values of Open, Fair, Innovative and Independent. We have an open office, open salaries and strive to be fair and transparent in our decision making. We encourage input and feedback from every member of our team and look to improve ourselves and our business every single day.

Diversity is an essential element of our core values. Not just respecting, but actively embracing a variety of backgrounds, life experiences, and opinions, helps us foster innovation, enhances our problem-solving capabilities, and promotes learning and engagement among the members of our team. We strongly encourage those with diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and harassment-free workplace for all employees. We do not tolerate any form of harassment, discrimination, or bias based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic.

To learn more about our values, our mission and what it's like to work at OnLogic, visit www.onlogic.com/careers.

Benefits

The salary range for this role is $80,000 to $100,000. We determine final compensation based on discussions with applicants and their experience in similar roles.

• A competitive Salary based upon your experience and the requirements of the role
• A comprehensive Benefits package
• 401k Plan with 3% Employer Contribution
• An Annual Profit Share Bonus 
• Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave, and Short & Long Term Disability
• Opportunity to Participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• A personal development plan created to help you (and us) grow

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