Test Engineer - Power Systems
Fargo, North Dakota - Full Time

Would you like the exhilarating opportunity to design quality reusable embedded products used for agricultural, forestry, and construction industries?  DISTek serves as a trusted engineering partner, working with customers by assisting in the development of specialized compact and efficient embedded systems, ECUs, electro-hydraulic controls, and vehicle networks. These are just some of the types of projects you could enjoy working on in this position. Our engineers also help our customers scale and grow over time by providing support, training, and on-site engineering services.  We provide a high-tech, challenging, and productive work environment while still retaining a small business atmosphere. DISTek is a company that upholds family values and common sense - two things that we believe will always carry us through the exciting challenges and opportunities we face. If you are motivated by the challenge to develop unique technology, seek a continuous learning environment, and are willing to enthusiastically contribute to our ongoing success, then please read on.

As an PV&V Test Engineer, you will join our team of engineers in Fargo, ND. Your primary mission will be to provide Product Verification and Validation (PV&V) Engineering support for electric machines (motors, generators, auxiliary motors). Your demonstrated knowledge and experience in creating test plans will be vital to your success. Because you are a fast learner with the ability to work independently (as well as part of a small team of software, test, electrical, and system engineers), you feel comfortable in a role where you are expected to think out of the box and devise innovative solutions to complex control problems. Also, because you have strong communications skills, you have no problem providing local and remote technical support to engineering, manufacturing, operations, and service organizations. In exchange for your technical prowess, you will be rewarded with challenging and high-impact projects that will pioneer new generations of large and small off-road vehicles.

Requirements:

  • Experience creating test plans. 
  • Minimum 2 years of experience creating verification and validation (V&V) plans, work requests, program management summaries, and scheduling V&V activities. 
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working with rotating componenets, electrical machine design, test, or implementation. 
  • Experience with automated testing – test driven development.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Ability to work in a team environment.
  • Ability to travel up to 20%. 

Desired: 

  • Knowledge of related electric drive components (inverters, connectors, energy storage, etc.). 

  • Knowledge of AI and its uses related to V&V. 

  • Knowledge in analytical details of electric machine types and design (continuous and peak load evaluation, electromagnetics, bearings, insulating materials, cooling and manufacturability). 

  • Experience in working across groups with co-workers to share knowledge and work toward common goals. 

  • Ability to work without supervision while managing projects and provides technical guidance when required on testing, evaluating and improving engineering outcomes. 

  • Experience working in Windchill and Creo.

As an employee-owned and operated company at DISTek Integration, we provide the best total solution to solve our clients’ biggest challenges in the software development lifecycle of electronic control systems found in mobile equipment within industries such as agriculture, construction, and mining.  We partner with our clients to design smarter, safer, and more sophisticated machines and their electronics systems. As experts in our core competencies of Modeling & Simulation, Embedded Software Development, and SIL/HIL simulators, we pride ourselves in delivering innovative solutions to complex problems targeting the off-highway vehicle market. With several offices throughout the upper Midwest area, we can support our clients throughout the United States as well as those all over the globe.

DISTek Integration, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or expression, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.