Lead Development Test Engineer

As a Lead Development Test Engineer, you will ensure Neros products are best-in-class by acting as the gate through which engineering designs are validated, refined, and qualified for production. You will work closely with mechanical, electrical, and other engineering disciplines to ensure designs function as intended, even under the most rigorous and extreme battlefield conditions. You will also leverage your experience to help accelerate Neros's pace of innovation by testing and collecting data on brand new technologies and architectures in early stage development.

The Development Test Engineer will help build the foundation for new team within a rapidly growing company. The position offers the opportunity to be creative and scrappy for fast-paced testing, while also being given significant freedom and resources to build Neros's internal test capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Validate Neros products across many forms of testing, including but not limited to: static and dynamic structural, shock and vibe, thermal, liquid/particle ingress, and environmental/corrosion
• Operate Neros test equipment (thermal chamber, tensile tester, vibe table, data acquisition setups etc.) and procure equipment and tools as needed
• Work with engineers to design and execute test plans ranging from early stage, single component risk-reduction testing to full-product qualification test campaigns. Help standardize appropriate test cases across the product suite.
• Design test rigs and fixtures. Create CAD models and drawings as needed to get parts fabricated.
• Process data to interpret results, and clearly document and present these results to the team
• Participate in and lead root cause analysis on test items as well as product field failures

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience running multidisciplinary testing within a fast paced engineering environment
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to solve problems through first principles thinking
• Hands-on fabrication and assembly skills
• Experience with a CAD software such as Solidworks or NX
• Familiarity with the usage of standard test equipment including thermocouples, strain gauges, load cells, IMUs/accelerometers

Nice to have

• Direct experience operating test equipment including: vibe tables, thermal chambers, tensile testers, battery testers
• Understanding of practical electrical fundamentals and experience integrating actuators and sensors into test setups
• Experience testing batteries
• Python or Matlab skills for automation and data processing
• Experience qualifying products to MIL-STD-810H or similarly rigorous test standards
• Experience creating high-quality engineering drawings
• Experience with Teamcenter

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.