TAR
Hardware Test Engineer, Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 15, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in hardware test, validation, or reliability engineering on robotic, vehicle, or electromechanical systems.
About the job
Owns the robotics hardware test function, building test rigs and fixtures, executing reliability and environmental testing, and qualifying robots for field deployment.
What you'll do
- Design test harnesses, rigs, and fixtures and create executable test plans and SOPs.
- Instrument and automate tests, manage data pipelines, and analyze reliability and failure data.
- Investigate failures through validated fixes and qualify machines for field deployment.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in hardware test, validation, or reliability engineering on robotic, vehicle, or electromechanical systems.
- Experience designing and building test rigs and fixtures, with CAD and GD&T fluency.
- Instrumentation and DAQ experience with load cells, strain gauges, thermocouples, accelerometers, and trustworthy measurement setup.
- Mechanical engineering fundamentals, structured root cause methods, accelerated life and durability testing, and Python or equivalent scripting.
Nice to have
- Experience standing up a test function from zero.
- Reliability statistics and tools such as Weibull++ or JMP; structural testing or field testing and commissioning experience.
Pay
Up to $15K USD (relocation bonus)
Tools
CAD, GD&T, DAQ, load cells, strain gauges, thermocouples, accelerometers, Python
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