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Senior Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer

US CA San Mateo💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-27

Core

Drive safety and reliability initiatives for state-of-the-art autonomous flying machines through comprehensive test strategies, failure analysis, and validation planning from prototyping to volume production.

Role type

Senior Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer

Builds

Autonomous drone systems for enterprise, public safety, and defense applications

Domain

Robotics / Autonomous Flight Systems / Hardware Reliability

Required skills

Hands-on testing of complex electro-mechanical systems, high density PCBA test engineering and debug, leading end-to-end technical validation programs, robotics testing, mechanical intuition, physics of failure analysis, Python, SQL, automated testing scripting, data analysis of flight telemetry

Preferred skills

Mechanical intuition, knowledge of critical electronics and mechanical subsystems integration risks, experience with compute systems and electro-mechanical sensors

Technologies

Python, SQL, AI models for data analysis

Responsibilities

Define and execute comprehensive test strategies from early prototyping through volume production, lead technical test strategy and validation planning, perform failure analysis and root cause identification, contribute to design reviews for reliability inputs, analyze massive flight telemetry datasets to identify problems and develop maintenance protocols

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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