Staff Product Launch Test Engineer
at Rivianvw Tech
Palo Alto, California, remote, staff, full time, 6+ years
posted 01 Jul 2026
- XCP
- PPAP
- Automotive Ethernet
- JTAG
- VDA
- TCP/IP
- MSA
- Python
- CAN FD
- EOL
- DMM
- UDS
- ISP
- Boundary Scan
- IATF 16949
- SQL
- LIN
- CAN
- DAP
- TestStand
- ICT
- PFMEA
- Oscilloscope
- LabVIEW
About the role
This is a hands-on manufacturing test engineering role on the production floor. As a Staff Manufacturing Test Engineer you own production test for RVTech electronic control units (ECUs) at our contract manufacturers: in-circuit test (ICT), end-of-line (EOL) functional test, and production flashing. You will be at the line through EVT, DVT, PVT, SOP and ramp-up; specifying and commissioning testers and fixtures, formally accepting test hardware and sequences before they reach production, chasing failures to root cause with design, firmware and process engineering, and holding the test gates at every program milestone. The problems you solve are in front of you on a bench or on a moving line, on real hardware. Your contributions will directly impact the performance and quality of RVTech's cutting-edge electronic modules, ensuring successful transitions from Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) to high-volume manufacturing at contract manufacturer locations.
Who This Role Is For
- Engineers who have owned real test equipment in a factory — an ICT set, an EOL station, a flashing cell — and been the person called when it stopped producing good parts.
- Engineers who can look at a failure and decide whether it is the fixture, the sequence, the process, the operator, the firmware, or the design — and then prove it.
- Engineers who are comfortable travelling to a contract manufacturer and standing on the floor until the problem is closed.
- Engineers who want to work across electronics and software rather than specialize in only one.
This is not a software QA, SDET, or application test automation role. It is not a product validation role (DV/PV, HIL, environmental, or vehicle-level testing). You will not be the primary author of the test sequences — you will review, challenge, accept and own them in production. If your background is software testing rather than manufacturing, this role will not be a fit.
What you would do
PRODUCTION TEST OWNERSHIP — ICT, EOL AND FLASHING
- Own the production test strategy, specifications and coverage for assigned ECU programs — ICT, EOL functional test and flashing — from DFT review through volume qualification.
- Drive the full industrialization of ECU flashing, from protocol selection (JTAG / DAP / ISP / bootloader) through volume qualification and cycle-time optimization.
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