System Design Validation Engineer

at Alarm.com

Taipei/Taoyuan/Hsinchu, Taiwan

Summary

Alarm.com is seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled System Design Validation Engineer to join our design quality assurance team. This role is responsible for end-to-end system-level validation of camera-related products, including video doorbells, battery-powered doorbells, indoor cameras, outdoor security cameras, and battery-powered outdoor cameras, from early-stage NPI through mass production. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between engineering and design quality, ensuring that products meet video image quality, audio performance, functional, reliability, and system-level requirements before reaching mass production.

Duties to be Performed

System Validation Engineering

Serve as the technical subject matter expert for system-level validation across mainly camera product lines, including video doorbells, battery-powered doorbells, indoor cameras, outdoor security cameras, and battery-powered outdoor cameras.
Partner with Mechanical Engineering (ME), Electrical Engineering (EE), Optics, Acoustic, RF, and Product Management (PM) teams during early development to define validation strategies and test coverage with particular emphasis on video image quality and audio performance validation.
Develop and maintain system validation plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, and validation reports for EVT, DVT, and PVT milestones, including dedicated video and audio quality benchmarks and pass/fail criteria.
Lead and execute environmental and mechanical reliability validation from sample run to pilot run stages, including second source reliability evaluation and qualification.
Evaluate and approve engineering changes affecting system-level performance and reliability, including changes that may impact camera image quality, video streaming, microphone sensitivity, and speaker output. .
Drive component and system qualification activities including functional testing, environmental testing, video image quality validation (e.g., resolution, low-light performance, WDR, color accuracy, latency), audio performance validation (e.g., microphone sensitivity, SNR, echo cancellation, speaker frequency response), and wireless connectivity testing.
Maintain standardized test documentation, issue tracking processes, and validation records across all managed product lines.

Product Test Engineering

Support the design, development, and deployment of automated production test programs for wireless functionality including WiFi, BT/BLE, LoRa, cellular, image quality screening, and audio/video performance verification.
Support On-going Reliability Test (ORT) on the implementation of automated video quality test routines covering resolution, frame rate, exposure, white balance, and streaming stability, as well as automated audio test routines covering frequency response, SNR, THD, and two-way talk performance.
Assist manufacturing team to optimize manufacturing test station's reliability using statistical quality metrics such as CpK, GR&R, and yield rate to improve first-pass yields.
Collaborate with R&D and manufacturing teams to refine test stations, enhance program efficiency, and resolve production bottlenecks.
Support manufacturing team on Shop Floor Control System (SFCS) implementation to ensure production traceability and real-time quality monitoring.
Provide input to product development team on product test design, production line planning, and the transition of projects to mass production.

Design Quality & Failure Analysis

Work with Manufacturing Quality Engineer (MQE) on manufacturing Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA) to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and reduce quality risks, including video and audio related defects such as image artifacts, noise, distortion, and audio dropouts.
Establish and maintain standardized design quality issue management processes to improve issue tracking efficiency and reduce cross-functional meeting overhead.