Job Description

Description & Requirements

PARC, a Xerox company, is in the Business of Breakthroughs. Practicing open innovation, we provide custom R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies and partners. The Intelligent Systems Lab is unlike any organization in the world. Combine the best of an esteemed research organization, a topnotch university, an entrepreneurial startup, and a premiere technology company and you get ISL, a team that melds its world-class innovation chops with a focus on researching and developing real world applications that have market potential. Research in ISL focuses on computer vision, data science, artificial intelligence, human-machine collaboration with a focus on inferencing in diverse unstructured environments

The world-renowned R&D teams at Xerox PARC have been developing new technologies designed to address many of the most complex and hard-to-solve challenges in the Cleantech sector. The Test Engineer for Cleantech is a newly created role that will work closely with the VP and Head of the Cleantech Business Unit and the R&D team at PARC to bridge novel thermal-fluids systems technologies into productization in Xeroxs new Cleantech Business.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation for Cleantech solutions and be a part of creating and launching cutting edge technology.

Responsibilities:

* Designing and executing test plans on fluid/thermal and electrochemical systems and subsystems to address performance, reliability, and robustness
* Designing and building test rigs and data acquisition systems to evaluate performance and reliability of various fluid/thermal/electrochemical components and systems
* Analyzing test data and working to understand expected and unexpected results
* Troubleshooting complex systems consisting of electrical, air, water, and refrigerant systems
* Coordinating with different design groups to address changes affecting multiple aspects of a system
* Ensuring that Design Verification Testing and Stress testing can fully qualify components for production launch
* Summarizing experimental findings to promote changes to design and/or process workflow
* Documenting test procedures and pass/fail criteria based on data for product launch
* Work with manufacturing to set up in-house acceptance testing for QA and build
* Participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Qualifications:

* MS in Engineering, Physics, or applied sciences
* >5 years experience in working with complex fluid/thermal systems, ideally including experience with HVAC
* Strong critical thinking skills: ability to deep dive into cause-effect to understand why something may fail
* Demonstrated history of testing, analyzing, and troubleshooting fluid/thermal systems
* Structured problem solving skills leveraging inputs such as functional documentation (electrical schematics, control logic, gas flow paths)
* Experienced in instrumentation and data acquisition systems, as well as various forms of temperature, pressure, and flow measurement
* Ability to read and understand system level interconnect diagram, P&ID and electrical schematic.

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