Specialist, Test Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Specialist, Test Engineering

Job Code: 47223

Job Location: San Diego, CA

**Job Schedule: 9/80: Employee's work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer to support the design verification, characterization, and integration of automated RF test systems and subsystems (ATS). The ideal candidate will have solid hands-on experience with RF measurements, automated test solutions, troubleshooting hardware issues, and working in cross-functional engineering environments. This role will contribute to the validation of RF hardware across development, qualification, and manufacturing phases.

Essential Functions:

• Design automated test systems to be used in production testing with multi-unit capabilities, automated fault detection and test reporting.

• Develop, execute, and document test plans, procedures, and reports for components, subsystems, and full system assemblies involved in product testing.

• Design and Perform RF measurements including gain, phase noise, power output, spurious response, sensitivity, EVM, BER, and spectral emissions.

• Set up and operate RF test equipment such as:

• Spectrum analyzers

• Signal generators

• Vector network analyzers

• Power meters

• Oscilloscopes

• Troubleshoot and isolate RF performance issues at the board, module, and system level.

• Support design verification and validation testing for transmitters, receivers, synthesizers, converters, filters, amplifiers.

• Develop automated test solutions using LabVIEW and Test Stand.

• Analyze test data and provide clear technical conclusions and recommendations to design teams and program leadership.

• Collaborate with RF design, systems, manufacturing, quality, and production teams to resolve technical issues.

• Support environmental, qualification, and compliance testing as needed.

• Create and maintain test documentation, calibration requirements, and configuration-controlled records.

• Assist in transitioning test methods from development into manufacturing or production environments.

• Familiarity with Design for Test (DfT) and Design for Manufacturing (DfM).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related with 4 years prior experience, Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related with 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

• Secret Security Clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Understanding of RF/microwave principles, including:

• S-parameters (Gain/Loss/VSWR/Return Loss)

• Phase noise

• Harmonics/Spurs

• Experience utilizing RF hardware across development and/or production environments. Such as:

• Filters, Amplifiers, Attenuators, Couplers, Splitters, Switches

• Hands-on proficiency with common RF lab instrumentation.

• Experience schematics, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test requirements.

• Ability to troubleshoot and root-cause hardware and measurement issues.

• Experience with test automation and data analysis tools.

• Experience with digital logic, differential communication protocols.

• Experience with schematic capture, and PWB design.

• Experience with wireless communications, telemetry, radar, EW, SATCOM, or aerospace/defense RF systems.

• Familiarity with digital modulation analysis and communications measurements like BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK.

• Experience with automated test equipment architecture and script-based test development.

• Knowledge of environmental and qualification testing for ruggedized hardware.

• Experience with encryption/decryption devices and systems.

• Familiarity with Linux, VHDL, and general development board platforms like ZYNQs, Zed Boards, Arty Boards, etc…

• Experience with Python, C++, and MATLAB

• Experience supporting design-to-production transitions.

• Experience generating and deriving system requirements from product specifications, RVTMs, VCRMs, and Validation Plans.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $92,500 - $171,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.