Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for electrical failures on deployed robots: power loss, brownouts, resets, communication dropouts, motor controller faults, and intermittent e-stops.
• Triage field incidents quickly and decide what is a board fault, a harness or connector fault, a firmware issue, or a mechanical or environmental cause.
• Mine fleet telemetry, error codes, and logs to spot failure trends, separate systemic issues from one-off failures, and rank fixes by fleet impact.
• Debug embedded firmware on STM32-class microcontrollers alongside the firmware team: decode fault and error flags, read crash dumps and fault registers, and attach a debugger (JTAG/SWD) to a live or failed board.
• Tell hardware faults apart from firmware faults, such as watchdog resets, ISR timing overruns, misconfigured protection thresholds, or bad build configurations.
• Own electrical integration and validation for next-generation hardware: board bring-up, power-on and power-sequencing tests, harness verification, and system-level integration with firmware and robot software.
• Write and run electrical test plans: DVT/PVT, HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, EMC pre-compliance, and long-duration duty-cycle and reliability testing.
• Build test fixtures, automated test scripts, and diagnostic tools that field and manufacturing teams can use to triage faults themselves.

Job requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years in systems integration, hardware validation, or test engineering for robotics, electromechanical, automotive, or similar complex hardware products.
• Proven hands-on experience diagnosing board-level failures in power distribution, motor control, and digital logic or controller boards, in the lab and in the field.
• Strong understanding of power electronics: DC-DC conversion, battery systems, protection circuits, MOSFET switching, gate drivers, and BLDC/PMSM motor drives.
• Comfortable with lab tools: oscilloscopes (including current probes and differential probes), DMMs, electronic loads, bench supplies, logic analyzers, and CAN bus analyzers.
• Able to read and work from schematics, PCB layouts, datasheets, and wiring harness drawings, and to do component-level rework and probing.
• A track record of leading root cause investigations to closure, with documented corrective actions that measurably reduced field failures.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar) for test automation and analysis of logs and telemetry data.