Senior Test Engineer
About The Position
Arxlight is seeking a hands-on Senior Test Engineer to build test infrastructure for its hardware products from the ground up. The role develops tools, fixtures, automation, and test systems to assess hardware functionality, diagnose failures, and determine readiness for shipment. Testing spans individual components, subsystems, assembled drones, and production units. The engineer will establish the lab and procedures while hardware is still evolving. The Senior Test Engineer works closely with Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, and Flight Test teams to translate product requirements and real-world failure modes into practical, repeatable tests. The role involves responding directly to unexpected flight-test results and production questions, and owning test methods from early prototypes through new product introduction and production.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on experience in hardware test, systems test, validation, reliability, or test engineering for complex hardware products.
- Strong experience building test fixtures, automated test equipment, data acquisition systems, instrumentation, and hardware/software test setups.
- Strong programming and automation skills using Python or similar languages.
- Experience working with test equipment, APIs, serial interfaces, CAN, Ethernet, or other hardware communication protocols.
- Broad understanding of electronics, embedded systems, sensors, batteries, motors, communications, and electromechanical systems, with the ability to troubleshoot across disciplines.
- Experience developing test plans, defining pass/fail criteria, analyzing large amounts of test data, and turning failures into actionable engineering feedback.
- Comfort working hands-on in a lab, building test setups, troubleshooting unfamiliar problems, and adapting as products or requirements change.
Nice To Haves
- Experience testing drones, robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace hardware, or other complex electromechanical products.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), flight simulation, or automated system-level testing.
- Experience with environmental and reliability testing, including thermal cycling, vibration, shock, ingress, drop, endurance, and accelerated life testing.
- Experience testing batteries, power systems, motors, ESCs, cameras, sensors, radios, GPS/GNSS, and other common drone subsystems.
- Experience developing production test systems and transitioning engineering test methods into reliable, repeatable manufacturing tests.
- Experience in a startup or fast-moving hardware company where building test infrastructure is expected.
Responsibilities
- Design and build test infrastructure for drones and subsystems, including test fixtures, automated test equipment, data acquisition, and hardware-in-the-loop test setups.
- Develop automated test software and scripts to run tests, collect and analyze data, and identify failures and performance issues.
- Build test coverage for electronics, sensors, cameras, batteries, motors, communications, flight systems, and fully assembled drones.
- Develop environmental, stress, endurance, reliability, and lifecycle tests that represent field use.
- Own test methods from early prototypes through NPI and production, making engineering tests repeatable and usable across the company.
- Work with Engineering and Manufacturing to investigate failures, identify root causes, improve designs, and ensure test results lead to product improvements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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