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Manufacturing Test Engineer (Taiwan)

Etched· Production
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TaoyuanFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Product Test Engineer focused on electrical debug, failure analysis, and DT/DTF improvements for AI hardware at contract manufacturers in Taiwan, supporting NPI bring-up through high-volume ramp with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshooting & repair: Diagnose and repair electronic assemblies (PCBA) down to the component level; isolate faults across module, L10, and L11 levels.
  • Factory ownership: Work directly on-site with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and ODMs in Taiwan to close capability gaps, improve yield, and qualify new components.
  • Ad-hoc bring-up: Support new-product and new-station bring-up on short notice — proto builds, DOE runs, first-article testing, and test station/fixture debug, often under compressed schedules.
  • Test execution: Set up and operate test equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, DMMs) and factory test stations.
  • Fixture design & implementation: Support (and over time lead) PCBA test fixture design and its factory implementation.
  • DFM/DFT: Drive DFM and DFT across the product lifecycle, partnering with EE designers and validation engineers to improve test coverage, manufacturability, and diagnosability.
  • Documentation & reporting: Maintain detailed records of failure data and repair actions; own and update debug procedures and FA/RMA SOPs used by the line.
  • Cross-functional support: Collaborate with design, quality, and production teams — across Taiwan and San Jose time zones — to resolve recurring issues and lift product yield.
  • Component & supply partnership: Partner with Component Engineering, Supply Chain, and Hardware teams to influence component selection and mitigate manufacturing risk early in the design cycle.
  • FMEA: Review and influence Process FMEA and Design FMEA, providing diagnostics input.
  • Yield leadership: Take point on complex issue resolution and drive defect and yield improvement initiatives to closure.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • 2–8 years of experience in manufacturing test, product, or electrical engineering — ideally gained inside a factory or working shoulder-to-shoulder with CM/ODM partners.
  • Hands-on board-level debug experience: schematics, electronics circuits, and PCB layouts.
  • Working knowledge of system hardware architectures and PCB fabrication/assembly processes.
  • Experience with DFX/DFM, yield assessment, and failure analysis.
  • Experience across NPI and sustaining environments, from proto bring-up to ramp.
  • Flexibility to adjust your schedule to meet project milestones and support critical build windows and to travel domestically to CM/ODM sites on short notice.
  • Working English for daily collaboration with our San Jose teams; fluent Mandarin for day-to-day factory work.
  • A collaborative, low-ego mindset — you will be the interface between Etched engineering and the factory floor.

Skills

Required:Electrical debuggingTest equipment operationDFX/DFMNPI & sustainingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Fixture design

Benefits

  • Competitive market pay + equity
  • Comprehensive medical package
  • US onboarding experience at our HQ in Silicon Valley, with ongoing travel to San Jose
  • Direct ownership of test engineering for a first-of-its-kind AI product, from first proto board to volume ramp
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.

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