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Test & Reliability Engineer, Robotics Hardware
$100K–$200K
Irvine, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 4+ years; candidates across mid-level to senior and staff levels are welcome.
- Education
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate testing, quality-control, and reliability processes for robotics hardware, from design validation and production readiness to monitoring and maintaining deployed fleets.
What you'll do
- Develop and conduct mechanical, electrical, and sensor tests; support safety and certification requirements.
- Establish manufacturing quality checks, testing procedures, and supplier qualification processes as production scales.
- Monitor fleet reliability, investigate failures, and support maintenance, calibration, and hardware retrofits.
What they ask for
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in hardware testing, quality, or reliability engineering.
- Experience across mechanical and electrical testing, including environmental and reliability testing, in-house and through third-party labs.
- Experience with quality-control processes such as IQC, OQC, and sampling/AQL.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling systems from prototype to production or testing systems in harsh industrial field environments.
- Background in deployed robotics, functional safety, reliability metrics, fleet monitoring, or failure analysis.
Pay
USD 100,000–200,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
LiDAR, depth camera, USB, Ethernet, CAN, I2C, GMSL, Linux
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