{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"29f600c3d3c861990898fb10","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29f600c3d3c861990898fb10","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29f600c3d3c861990898fb10","title":"Electrical Engineering Technician - Network Test Bed","description":"Role/Project Overview -\n\nThe Network Test Bed will function as an isolated, reconfigurable simulation environment for Form’s BMS communications architecture.\nRather than reproducing an entire battery product, the bench will recreate one complete communications layer at a time, such as:\nOne AMU connected to five ZMUs\nOne QMU connected to four AMUs\nA redundant BMU connected to multiple QMU quads\nSoftware-defined network switches will reconfigure isolated networks to reproduce different operating conditions. The bench will allow Form to simulate:\nCommunication-link losses\nNetwork congestion and contention\nProduction wiring resistance\nPower interruptions and restart conditions\nGround-current leakage\nController boot, synchronization and safety signaling\nTemperature and power-consumption behavior\nThe ultimate goal is to identify communication and hardware issues in the lab before they affect a deployed battery system.\n\nRole Mission -\n\nDesign and specify the electrical infrastructure required to build a safe, modular and reconfigurable BMS communications test bench.\nThe engineer must be able to take high-level test requirements, evaluate custom versus commercial solutions, select an architecture and deliver sufficiently detailed designs and BOMs for another team to fabricate.\nThis is best suited to a hands-on test-hardware or electrical systems engineer—not a pure firmware engineer, PCB layout specialist or test technician.\n\nDay-to-Day Responsibilities -\n\nCAN/CAN-FD architecture:\nEvaluate different CAN gateway and bus-selector architectures, including:\nTI TCAN4550 CAN-FD devices\nMUX-controlled CAN-H/CAN-L buffering\nCommercial CAN-to-Ethernet gateways\nRecommend the appropriate architecture and channel count for AMU-to-Pack, ZMU-to-Pack and ZMU tower bus-pair selection.\nDesign a minimized CAN harness that electrically emulates production wiring without requiring the full physical cable length.\nDefine resistance, topology and termination requirements for full-ring network configurations.\nProduce the harness build specification and BOM.\nSignal isolation and control\nDesign or select opto-isolated GPIO boards with approximately eight inputs and eight outputs per target.\nSupport boot-mode, synchronization and safety signaling across QMU, AMU, ZMU and CSB controller types.\nSpecify isolated console USB connections for MPU- and MCU-based devices.\nEnsure electrical isolation and grounding are appropriate for reliable testing and equipment protection.\nPower switching and monitoring\nDesign or select GPIO- and relay-controlled switching for: 24V DC, 48V DC, AC loads, Approximately 100W, SPDT switching\nIntegrate digitally readable power-consumption monitoring.\nSpecify DC power distribution, including PSUs, bus bars, grounding and battery backup.\nDefine per-device power-consumption and ground-leakage monitoring.\nSupport custom power and supercapacitor test fixtures.\nTest hardware and lab integration\nSupport custom breadboards, test boards, bring-up fixtures and iterative hardware improvements.\nSelect a thermal-camera solution for PCB- and system-level temperature monitoring.\nSupport bring-up and troubleshoot electrical issues after the fabrication team builds the hardware.\nDocument designs clearly enough for independent fabrication, assembly and future maintenance.\nFuture-phase scoping\nHelp define future fiber-transceiver qualification requirements.\nEvaluate needs for programmable optical attenuators.\nScope portable environmental-chamber testing for temperature and humidity qualification.\nInform—but not necessarily execute—the later fiber-testing phase.\n\nMust-Have Qualifications -\n\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.\nHands-on experience designing electrical hardware for test benches, lab systems, automated test equipment or embedded-system validation.\nWorking knowledge of CAN and/or CAN-FD physical-layer design, including termination, topology, bus resistance and signal-routing considerations.\nExperience designing or specifying: Signal routing, Electrical isolation, GPIO interfaces, Relay-controlled switching, DC power distribution, Digital voltage, current or power monitoring.\nAbility to evaluate custom designs against commercial off-the-shelf solutions and make a technically justified recommendation.\nAbility to create clear schematics, wiring or harness specifications, engineering documentation and BOMs that another team can build from.\nHands-on lab-debugging ability using tools such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power supplies and CAN analyzers.\nCapable of working independently in an initially open-ended environment.\nAble to work onsite in Berkeley for the duration of the contract.\n\nPreferred Qualifications -\n\nBattery Management System or other distributed embedded-controller experience.\nExperience with reconfigurable communications or automated network test benches.\nDeeper CAN/CAN-FD experience involving gateways, bus selectors, ring topologies, fault insertion or multiple network segments.\nPCB schematic design and board bring-up experience.\nFamiliarity with isolation boundaries, leakage-current measurement and grounding strategies.\nExperience integrating software-controlled relays, power supplies, switches and measurement devices.\nFiber-optic transceiver or programmable optical-attenuator experience.\nEnvironmental qualification experience involving temperature or humidity testing.\nExperience selecting or integrating thermal-imaging systems.\nPrevious contract or project-based work delivering designs to a separate fabrication team.","company":"Omega Solutions","rawCompany":"omega solutions","city":"Berkeley","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-11T16:31:20.300Z","occupations":[{"code":"17-3023.00","title":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians","slug":"electrical-and-electronic-engineering-technologists-and-technicians"},{"code":"17-2071.00","title":"Electrical Engineers","slug":"electrical-engineers"},{"code":"17-2072.00","title":"Electronics Engineers, Except Computer","slug":"electronics-engineers-except-computer"}],"industries":[{"code":"335999","title":"All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing","slug":"all-other-miscellaneous-electrical-equipment-and-component-manufacturing"},{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"},{"code":"335910","title":"Battery Manufacturing","slug":"battery-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Electrical Engineering Technician - Network Test Bed","description":"Role/Project Overview -\n\nThe Network Test Bed will function as an isolated, reconfigurable simulation environment for Form’s BMS communications architecture.\nRather than reproducing an entire battery product, the bench will recreate one complete communications layer at a time, such as:\nOne AMU connected to five ZMUs\nOne QMU connected to four AMUs\nA redundant BMU connected to multiple QMU quads\nSoftware-defined network switches will reconfigure isolated networks to reproduce different operating conditions. The bench will allow Form to simulate:\nCommunication-link losses\nNetwork congestion and contention\nProduction wiring resistance\nPower interruptions and restart conditions\nGround-current leakage\nController boot, synchronization and safety signaling\nTemperature and power-consumption behavior\nThe ultimate goal is to identify communication and hardware issues in the lab before they affect a deployed battery system.\n\nRole Mission -\n\nDesign and specify the electrical infrastructure required to build a safe, modular and reconfigurable BMS communications test bench.\nThe engineer must be able to take high-level test requirements, evaluate custom versus commercial solutions, select an architecture and deliver sufficiently detailed designs and BOMs for another team to fabricate.\nThis is best suited to a hands-on test-hardware or electrical systems engineer—not a pure firmware engineer, PCB layout specialist or test technician.\n\nDay-to-Day Responsibilities -\n\nCAN/CAN-FD architecture:\nEvaluate different CAN gateway and bus-selector architectures, including:\nTI TCAN4550 CAN-FD devices\nMUX-controlled CAN-H/CAN-L buffering\nCommercial CAN-to-Ethernet gateways\nRecommend the appropriate architecture and channel count for AMU-to-Pack, ZMU-to-Pack and ZMU tower bus-pair selection.\nDesign a minimized CAN harness that electrically emulates production wiring without requiring the full physical cable length.\nDefine resistance, topology and termination requirements for full-ring network configurations.\nProduce the harness build specification and BOM.\nSignal isolation and control\nDesign or select opto-isolated GPIO boards with approximately eight inputs and eight outputs per target.\nSupport boot-mode, synchronization and safety signaling across QMU, AMU, ZMU and CSB controller types.\nSpecify isolated console USB connections for MPU- and MCU-based devices.\nEnsure electrical isolation and grounding are appropriate for reliable testing and equipment protection.\nPower switching and monitoring\nDesign or select GPIO- and relay-controlled switching for: 24V DC, 48V DC, AC loads, Approximately 100W, SPDT switching\nIntegrate digitally readable power-consumption monitoring.\nSpecify DC power distribution, including PSUs, bus bars, grounding and battery backup.\nDefine per-device power-consumption and ground-leakage monitoring.\nSupport custom power and supercapacitor test fixtures.\nTest hardware and lab integration\nSupport custom breadboards, test boards, bring-up fixtures and iterative hardware improvements.\nSelect a thermal-camera solution for PCB- and system-level temperature monitoring.\nSupport bring-up and troubleshoot electrical issues after the fabrication team builds the hardware.\nDocument designs clearly enough for independent fabrication, assembly and future maintenance.\nFuture-phase scoping\nHelp define future fiber-transceiver qualification requirements.\nEvaluate needs for programmable optical attenuators.\nScope portable environmental-chamber testing for temperature and humidity qualification.\nInform—but not necessarily execute—the later fiber-testing phase.\n\nMust-Have Qualifications -\n\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.\nHands-on experience designing electrical hardware for test benches, lab systems, automated test equipment or embedded-system validation.\nWorking knowledge of CAN and/or CAN-FD physical-layer design, including termination, topology, bus resistance and signal-routing considerations.\nExperience designing or specifying: Signal routing, Electrical isolation, GPIO interfaces, Relay-controlled switching, DC power distribution, Digital voltage, current or power monitoring.\nAbility to evaluate custom designs against commercial off-the-shelf solutions and make a technically justified recommendation.\nAbility to create clear schematics, wiring or harness specifications, engineering documentation and BOMs that another team can build from.\nHands-on lab-debugging ability using tools such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power supplies and CAN analyzers.\nCapable of working independently in an initially open-ended environment.\nAble to work onsite in Berkeley for the duration of the contract.\n\nPreferred Qualifications -\n\nBattery Management System or other distributed embedded-controller experience.\nExperience with reconfigurable communications or automated network test benches.\nDeeper CAN/CAN-FD experience involving gateways, bus selectors, ring topologies, fault insertion or multiple network segments.\nPCB schematic design and board bring-up experience.\nFamiliarity with isolation boundaries, leakage-current measurement and grounding strategies.\nExperience integrating software-controlled relays, power supplies, switches and measurement devices.\nFiber-optic transceiver or programmable optical-attenuator experience.\nEnvironmental qualification experience involving temperature or humidity testing.\nExperience selecting or integrating thermal-imaging systems.\nPrevious contract or project-based work delivering designs to a separate fabrication team.","datePosted":"2026-08-11T16:31:20.300Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T16:31:20.300Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Omega Solutions","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Berkeley","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"29f600c3d3c861990898fb10"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29f600c3d3c861990898fb10"}}