Hardware Test Engineer
Specter, San Francisco
The role
Given a product and its requirements, you build the test plan, build the fixture, run the campaign, and script it so the next run is faster. When a unit fails—on the bench, in a chamber, or in the field—you own it across mechanical, electrical, and firmware boundaries until it's understood and fixed.
Concretely, here are some of the things you'll work on in the first few months:
- Plan and run campaigns – Turn product requirements into concrete test plans, then execute: set up fixtures, run chambers, stress hardware to its limits, collect the data, write the report.
- Automate – Script thermal, shock, and vibration campaigns in Python against instruments and fixtures so every run is reproducible.