TEST TECHNICIAN
Company description
Xiphos Systems Corporation, founded in 1996, is a vibrant and energetic company in the heart of
Montreal’s Plateau area. For over 20 years, we have pushed the envelope of what is possible in
NewSpace and secured the trust of various space agencies and space companies around the world. The industry has adopted our design approach and, as a result, we have been experiencing several years of rapid, steady growth and the trend is continuing!
Our vision is to migrate terrestrial computing and network communication techniques into space
environments. The company’s expertise in networked processors has evolved into in a line of high-performance, fault-tolerant flight control and sensor processing hardware and software solutions in wide and varied advanced space applications.
Xiphos’ primary markets are small satellites, space station applications, as well as lunar landers, rovers, and robotics. We have delivered our standard and custom products all over the world and have been essential to many successful space missions. With low power consumption, high processing power, enhanced flexibility, excellent robustness, and proven functions available off-the-shelf, our Q-cards are increasingly the preferred solution in the fast-growing field of NewSpace.
Role Description
Reporting to the Test Team Lead, Xiphos is looking for a Test Technician with hands-on experience working with aerospace flight hardware. In this role, you will be testing Q-cards in our production lines, executing test procedures, and building test equipment. You will also solder various components on circuit boards based on customer configurations or test applications. Finally, you will support our test lab by performing equipment calibration, ESD verification, and inventory management. The responsibilities for this position require the ideal candidate to work entirely on-site.
Main tasks
- Perform acceptance testing on production units
- Visual inspection of electronics under a microscope
- Perform hardware checkout of electronics
- Load test software
- Run functional test scripts
- Conduct thermal cycle testing
- Document test results
- Build custom test hardware such as harnesses, EGSE, mechanical enclosures, mounting plates
- Integration of test hardware; flight and engineering models with associated EGSE
- Solder various components onto our Q-cards
- Execute test procedures
- Perform test lab support; equipment calibration, ESD verification, inventory management
You should have experience with:
- Working in a lab environment: ESD, Clean-rooms, test benches, flight hardware
- Quality Inspections: IPC-A-610
- Soldering: Surface mount and through hole on PCB's
- Aerospace assembly, integration, and test (AIT)
- Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE): power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes
- Building Cable Harnesses
Nice to have experience with:
- Reading engineering drawings
- PCB manufacturing process
- Running automated test scripts
- Scripting language: Python
- Linux command line
- Any CAD Software
- Version control
Your Interpersonal skills:
- Hardworking multi-tasker
- Autonomous, minimal supervision
- Strong context switching capabilities
- Collaborative team player
- Excellent communication skills
Your background:
- 2+ years experience
- Technical certificate or associates degree related to electronics
- Must be able to obtain Canadian government security clearance (Canadian Controlled Goods Program)