Hardware Test Engineering Intern

Lunar Energy•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

A Test Engineering Intern on Lunar Energy’s Reliability Testing team helps validate the company’s home energy products throughout their lifecycle. The role contributes to hardware validation, test automation, failure investigations, test infrastructure, and collaboration across engineering teams. Lunar Energy is a global clean-energy company focused on electrifying homes and connecting communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering in progress.
Highly curious, with hands-on project experience.
Working knowledge of programming.

Nice To Haves

Mechatronics or electrical engineering background.
Python and object-oriented programming experience.
Experience with test equipment such as power supplies, multimeters, DAQs, sensors, and instrumentation.
Working knowledge of statics, mechanics of materials, and heat and mass transfer.
Familiarity with testing embedded or IoT systems, or wireless communications such as Wi-Fi, mesh networks, or BLE.
Basic mechanical-design experience or familiarity with CAD software and/or PCBA design.

Responsibilities

Perform and execute different types of testing as part of the hardware validation process.
Design and build test stands for PCBA testing.
Specify test-stand equipment and instrumentation.
Work with technicians to design and build test stands.
Write Python scripts to automate testing and process test data.
Use AI assistants and coding tools thoughtfully in engineering workflows, verifying outputs when appropriate and following confidentiality practices.
Assist with failure-analysis investigations and countermeasure validation for test and field failures, working with the design team, reliability team, and failure-analysis lab.
Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers to develop test methodologies.
Analyze test data, write test reports, and identify important findings.
Contribute to test-infrastructure improvements, including codebase features and custom test equipment.