Integration Engineer - Hands

1X • San Carlos, CA

13d

About The Position

The Hands team builds the dexterous hands that enable NEO to grasp, manipulate objects, and help around the home. The hands contain motors, encoders, gearing, and sensors, and must be proven before shipment. Test engineering supports the subsystem from early bench characterization and design validation through production testing and field returns, in close partnership with electrical, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering.

The role builds and owns tests that verify NEO’s hands. It develops test software, stations, and procedures to characterize hand actuators and sensors, catch failures early, and support reliable production. The engineer bridges bench testing and the production line by understanding what tests measure, analyzing data to find root causes, and making tests reliable and safe for technicians to run at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in hardware test, validation, or manufacturing test engineering.
• Experience writing software for test and test automation, including pass/fail scripts, data logging, and plotting.
• Strong electromechanical fundamentals, including motors (FOC basics, torque, current, and back-EMF), encoders, gearing, and friction.
• Comfort working in Linux, including SSH, process and service management, and troubleshooting disks and networks.
• Hands-on bench experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, thermocouples, load cells, wiring, and fixturing.
• Embedded and firmware literacy, including the ability to build and flash firmware onto boards and read C/C++ well enough to trace faults.
• Working knowledge of Git, including branching, keeping branches up to date with main, and opening clean merge requests.
• Strong electromechanical intuition and an understanding of what a test measures, not just how to run it.
• Rigorous, data-driven debugging skills, including tracing faults in logs or waveforms to hardware, firmware, or the test itself.
• Production mindset, with care around live equipment, disciplined procedures, and a focus on repeatability.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort working across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.
• Ownership mindset, bias toward execution, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Robotics experience, ideally with robotic hands, grippers, or high-cycle actuators.
• Basic fixture design experience, including CAD and 3D printing for test jigs.
• Experience building automated test infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, or hardware-in-the-loop validation systems.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, deployment, or field operations for complex products.
• Familiarity with ROS, robotic middleware, or real-time distributed control systems.

Responsibilities

• Build automated pass/fail test scripts that log data and generate plots to characterize hand actuators, encoders, and sensors.
• Own and maintain test PCs and production stations, keeping them healthy, networked, and running validated software.
• Analyze logs to identify when failures occurred, determine root causes, and write clear summaries that inform design and process fixes.
• Write repeatable procedures and develop tests that technicians can run safely and consistently on live production equipment.
• Design and build test fixtures and jigs to speed validation of hands, grippers, and high-cycle actuators.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%).
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options.
• Commuter benefits for transit and parking.
• Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support.
• Onsite snacks and catered lunches.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior