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Staff Product Technician - 130462

The Role:

Lead a team of technicians to benchmark performance of innovative processors using proprietary automation tools. This lead will work with internal Engineers, program management, product management and software development to deliver results on time.

The Person:

This highly motivated team member will quickly diagnose any issues and resolve them or bring the issues to the attention of the lead engineer or software development team in order to maintain overall test schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates Systems breadth - CPU, chipset, boards, options, peripherals, OS, BIOS, drivers
• Experience with industry standard benchmarks, benchmark testing, setup and reporting.
• Experience with test automation techniques and workflows.
• Ability to lead teams to test requirements for test flow development and execution.
• Speaks SW, Hardware and System. Able to function within Bios, Drivers, Silicon, IO subsystems, power, thermal.
• Demonstrates platform experience across configurations, definitions, and integrations
• Knowledge of test methodologies as they would apply to end customer experience.
• Ability to work with Lead System Engineers, Lead Technical Engineers and debug leads to resolve complex issues that are found during the test cycle.
• Experience carrying out test cases to validate systems including ASIC hardware (SoC or discrete), peripheral hardware, drivers, software tools, firmware, BIOS, operating systems, and applications.
• Knowledge of how systems power sequence from POST to operating system including power, BIOS, firmware, boot and HAL.
• Experience with industry standard computer architecture specs.
• Exposure to register read and write using software and hardware tools in an OS or with JTAG interface.
• Ability to interpret new technologies from specifications and implement test procedure content.
• Scripting with Python/C#/powershell or other languages

Preferred Experience:

• Engages well with customers and partners while navigating through potential roadblocks
• Effective with executive communication and building respect
• Works multi-functionally across groups (LSE, Debug, HW, Software) to quickly resolve issues that arise from testing.
• Partners with External and Customer co-validation teams
• Accomplished listener who can analyze, abstract, communicate the big picture, and articulate status, progress and success to upper management.
• Requires 3 to 5 years’ experience leading computer testing, validation or performance benchmarking.
• Strong analysis and problem solving skills
• Teammate with good communication skills.
• Prior experience with client PC and mobile testing, diagnostic and debug preferred
• Prior experience running tests in an automated environment
• Prior experience with testing tools and environments, defect tracking and revision control
• Relevant industry experience.

Academic Credentials:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering