Apptronik
Senior Hardware Test Engineer - Components
Austin, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- BS + 6 years relevant experience, OR MS + 4 years, OR PhD + 2 years.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field; OR MS or PhD in a related field.
About the job
Owns validation, reliability, and production testing of robot electronic components, from test design and failure analysis through handoff to manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Plan and run validation and HALT/HASS campaigns for PCBAs, harnesses, sensors, and compute modules.
- Develop test methods, fixtures, automation, pass/fail criteria, and documentation; diagnose failures to component level.
- Transfer validated test processes to the Manufacturing Test team for inspection and production.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience validating electronic hardware with bench equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and DAQ systems.
- Experience with ICT, flying probe, and functional testing, including fixture design and defining pass/fail criteria.
- Experience with HALT/HASS and understanding of harness field-failure drivers.
- Strong hardware debugging skills and understanding of sensor physics.
Nice to have
- Experience with compute-platform stress testing, robotics or electromechanical systems, or transitioning tests into production/NPI.
- Test automation experience (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, or similar) and familiarity with DFT and DFM.
Tools
PCBAs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, DAQ systems, HALT/HASS, ICT, flying probe, Python
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