Senior Test and Validation Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will bring robotic hardware subsystems to a functional, controllable, measurable, and integration-ready state. You will design and execute tests, build test rigs, calibrate control loops, characterize actuators, analyze results, and support quality verification and failure diagnostics.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
• 5+ years of robotic hardware, controls, actuator characterization, and system commissioning experience
• Experience with motors, actuators, encoders, force/torque sensors, and hardware instrumentation
• Calibration, parameter identification, modeling, and mathematical optimization
• Python, MATLAB, or C++
• Safety testing, FMEA, and reliability analysis
• Data acquisition systems
• LabVIEW, Python, or MATLAB

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and execute tests for actuators, mechanisms, grippers, and robotic hands
• Build and maintain dynamic and endurance test fixtures and rigs
• Tune and calibrate sensors and driver control loops
• Develop subsystem characterization methods and identify mechanical and thermal parameters
• Develop automated hardware and software test systems
• Conduct lifecycle, stress, thermal, and environmental tests
• Analyze results, create reports, and drive design feedback
• Define testable requirements, tolerances, and performance metrics
• Support incoming quality control, assembly verification, and field-failure diagnostics
• Maintain test documentation, protocols, and results databases
• Evaluate actuator behavior in closed-loop scenarios

Benefits

• Fully paid medical and dental coverage
• Virtual care
• Employee and family assistance
• Worldwide emergency medical support
• 23 days of accrued annual leave
• 15 days of paid sick leave
• Paid company holidays
• Equity
• Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks