ChaoWei Liao

I own how hardware gets tested — and I qualify the test system itself, not just the units passing through it.

Most manufacturing test engineers verify the product. I verify the instrument and the software that reads it. Fifteen years across Anduril, Microsoft Azure, Seagate and Intel, coming to manufacturing from firmware — so testability gets designed in with the EE, ME and firmware teams before the first board exists.

U.S. citizen, eligible for security clearance.

Manufacturing Test & Automation

End-of-line test strategy, Design for Test (DFT), NPI through volume ramp, station and line automation, OEM/ODM and contract manufacturer leadership.

Measurement Correctness

Mutation testing and ratcheting coverage floors over the test suite itself; tolerances derived from measurement-system capability (gauge R&R, FMEA) rather than convention. Rust, C/C++, RTOS, ARM.

Anduril Industries

• Own end-of-line test and calibration for a 16-station production line (4 station roles, 18 subsystems, 26 tools), qualifying the test system itself as a measurement system, not just the units passing it.
• Plan the test-software roadmap: sequence station bring-up against the production schedule, allocate engineering effort across workstreams, and own the timeline other teams plan against.
• Eliminated three classes of measurement error in the test software, a fixture-coupled magnetometer band, a saturating telemetry field and a boot-timing race, plus a threshold too wide to ever fail.
• Introduced mutation testing to prove the suite itself is robust, and restructured it into system code, test code and test profiles so a profile retunes on the line without a code release.
• Disproved an accepted data-classification method, only 37.8% correct, and rebuilt it from source.
• Derived test tolerances from measurement-system capability (gauge R&R), not convention.
• Added ratcheting coverage floors and a nightly adversarial code review over the test suite.
• Led a cross-program electromagnetic interference investigation and owned the corrective test gate.
• Built a hardware-in-the-loop captive-trajectory rig around a 6-axis force/torque sensor.

Microsoft

• Led test strategy for new Azure datacenter hardware, owning quality and manufacturability to volume.
• Drove coverage-versus-station-cost tradeoffs across the datacenter hardware portfolio.
• Turned ambiguous requirements into work instructions OEM/ODM operators executed reliably at scale.
• Supervised global OEM/ODM partners and built an operator certification program across the vendor base.
• Developed a mission-critical storage device driver in Rust for datacenter units.
• Built multi-agent autonomous systems keeping remote automated deployment stable at fleet scale.
• Reviewed team designs and code; root-caused issues across the Azure hardware/firmware/software stack.

Microsoft

• Owned hardware test development for Azure Edge Computing with globally distributed OEM/ODM teams.
• Designed and integrated the automation test suite; defined hardware component test plans.
• Root-caused hardware and firmware defects across BMC, IPMI, BIOS, CPU, GPU, VPU, DIMM and NVMe.

Seagate

• Primary developer of the logging and S.M.A.R.T. subsystems in a multi-CPU embedded system.
• Developed hard drive firmware in an RTOS environment on ARM Cortex microcontrollers.
• Applied Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) across projects to surface reliability risk early.
• Worked across SAS, SATA, I2C, SPI, UART and JTAG interfaces; Agile/Scrum delivery with Git.
• Mentored new engineers onto the team and helped them ramp to independent ownership.

Bayer

• Built an Android app that auto-validated glucose meter firmware over BLE, cutting test time 94%.
• Cut the validation cycle from 64 hours/week to 4; built the non-invasive optical glucose test rig.

Intel

• Debugged firmware defects across twelve distinct Intel tablet platforms.
• Tested and certified fifteen-plus products against Microsoft WHCK and Google CTS.
• Root-caused defects across the software / operating system / hardware boundary.

Ambarella

• Developed and maintained DSP firmware on ARM11 plus Dual Cortex platform.
• Ported the system across RTOS environments, from microITRON to ThreadX.
• Improved face and object tracking success rate by 40% and cut power use 4.2% on Samsung DV.
• Designed a real-time speed alert for CarDV by using Hough transform.

Air Force of ROC Military

• Find/Track/Target Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) through radar and analyzed with leader team.
• Transmitting the above info to help set artillery positions on field.
• Set up and maintain both wired phone lines and wireless encrypted communication devices, ensure secure transmission of classified information.

Freelance Programmer

• Constructed an interactive installation for Taipei City Government (C# webcam gesture detection, Arduino AVR168).
• Built an Arduino light control system for the Taiwan International Lighting Show at Taipei World Trade Center.

The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas

Dec. 2015

National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan

Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2010
Master Thesis: Intelligent Monitoring Laboratory System Construction

National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan

Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2009
Scholarships: Outstanding Performance student (2007, 2008)

Excellent Award

National Intelligent Robots Contest

Embedded System Lab

Programming firmware of WSN nodes on real-time OS.
Constructed network simulate model.

Internet Security Lab

Implement program of Distributed Internet Defensive System on Linux.

Teaching Assistant

Software Design of Embedded System
Digital VLSI Design and Layout.
Bioinformatics

Teacher of Embedded System Programming

Teaching embedded system programming.
Design lesson plans.
Leading over 300 students and 27 instructors.

Tutor

Teaching math and foundations of computer science.

Wireless Sensor Network Techniques Base on Dynamic Source Routing

Development of Wireless Sensor Network Routing Techniques upon Dynamic Source Routing

A Novel in the Tourist Hotel Business with Integrated RFID Technology and Relational Database

Event Organizer

Recruiter