Hardware Test Engineer, Span.IO

• 5+ years of experience in a hardware test role
• Deep understanding of environmental/reliability test procedures, accelerated life testing, and risks posed to hardware products in the field
• Competent in soldering & electronic rework for SMD parts on PCBAs
• Hands-on experience building test setups and using instrumentation
• Ability to understand and discuss the electromagnetism, electronics, and material physics fundamentals underlying hardware reliability and safety
• Comfortable with scripting languages, particularly Python, and owning SW tools for the test team’s use
• Ability to understand and explain complex problems simply and effectively
• Meticulous and creative approach to problem-solving; excellent note-taking habits
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Desirable

• As a Hardware Test Engineer, you will lead in defining and implementing our strategies for hardware reliability and safety
• Working with our mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering teams, you’ll define how to test our hardware and take the lead on making it happen
• The Hardware Test Engineer at SPAN is expected to be concerned about product safety and reliability
• In addition to working with our lab to build out high-quality prototypes required to get accurate and repeatable results, you’ll be expected to define a strategy for instrumentation and data acquisition and documentation and presentation of results
• We will lean on your expertise to help steer our product strategy and guide us toward our goal of rapidly deploying advanced renewable energy technology that is trustworthy and safe
• Build test setups and take data in our lab
• Work with Engineers to develop test plans
• Operate tests using Linux command line and use Python coding to support test logging and data analysis and presentation
• Conduct testing in areas including the validation of material properties, design structure, thermal performance, ingress performance, antenna performance, and electrical safety
• Define test plans for environmental/reliability, pre-compliance, and hardware design verification
• Plan out what we can run in our lab and what to outsource, coordinate with external test labs to outsource tests, and manage project timelines
• Root-cause analyze hardware failures from the field and factory
• Prepare and present test findings in reports for internal team consumption
• Develop and execute reliability tests and certification tests as needed to support electrical development
• Reworking PCBAs, building up up cables, modifying off the shelf components
• Various prototyping and building or PCBAs, test fixtures, and set-ups
• Note that we are a startup, so this list is just a start; you will end up wearing many hats during your time at Span and getting to try things outside your area of expertise