Product Certification & Test Engineer

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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.