Test Automation Engineer, Hardware-in-the-Loop
Hadrian Automation3 days ago
Base Salary
$268k - $321k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build hardware-in-the-loop test stands for robots, end effectors, sensors, and machine subsystems.
- Build test frameworks covering instrument and device control, fixtures, stimulus, result schemas, and dashboards.
- Integrate bench tests into CI so firmware and hardware changes are tested on real hardware before release.
- Build safe interfaces for AI agents to run tests and experiments on physical hardware.
- Run repeatable unattended test campaigns, analyze results with statistical confidence, and determine which questions require physical benches versus simulation.
- Maintain test infrastructure as a service and support integration and acceptance testing of new automation before production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Strong electrical fundamentals, including bench instruments, wiring, and electrical safety.
- Strong Python software engineering skills, including test frameworks, CI, and version control.
- Systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements-to-test traceability and interface management.
- Experience selecting, mounting, and calibrating sensors; performing data acquisition; and handling sampling, triggering, and time synchronization.
- Experience flashing, debugging, and testing microcontroller firmware and integrating electromechanical systems.
- Experience building automated test stands or HIL systems end to end, including instrument control over SCPI, serial, CAN, or Ethernet.
- Heavy daily use of AI tools and agents, including reviewing and verifying their outputs.
- Preferred experience includes mechanical fixture and test-cell design, motion-stage controls, statistical analysis or machine learning on test data, motor/drive/sensor integration, industrial robot programming, machine vision, and shared hardware/software interface definition.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
- 401(k).
- Relocation support may be provided in certain situations based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Equity.
About Hadrian Automation
Hadrian Automation builds autonomous, software-driven factories that manufacture precision components for aerospace and defense programs, including rockets, satellites, aircraft, and ships. The company operates a Factory-as-a-Service platform, combining AI, robotics, and full-stack machining and fabrication to deliver critical parts and production capacity. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, it is privately held and expanding capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.