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# Hardware Test Engineer

- **Company:** Optivolt Labs, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Software Debugging, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), LabVIEW, Software Reliability Testing, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5f4961bfdcf79b28

## About the Role

* You have tested real hardware. 3+ years of hands-on hardware test, validation, or electrical engineering experience.
 * You know how to measure electrical systems. Strong electrical fundamentals and ability to read schematics and debug circuits.
 * You can write useful test automation. Experience with oscilloscopes, power analyzers, electronic loads, DAQs, and bench instrumentation.
 * You are comfortable with lab equipment. Python proficiency for automation, analysis, and instrument control.
 * You can debug across disciplines. Experience building test fixtures and repeatable validation processes.
 * You know how to build repeatable tests. Ability to distinguish hardware, firmware, communications, and system-level failure modes.
 * You own problems through resolution. Strong experimental rigor, documentation, and ownership.

Preferred skills

 * Experience with DC-DC converters, solar, batteries, or embedded controllers.
 * Familiarity with environmental chambers and accelerated reliability testing.
 * Experience with SCPI, LabVIEW, CAN, UART, SPI, or similar interfaces.
 * Experience building production test equipment and dashboards.

Additional requirements

 * Willingness to work extended hours as needed to support critical milestones
 * Everyone at Optivolt is required to participate in on call support for customers
 * Must be based in San Francisco, CA

## Description

* Build test systems that engineers rely on. Design and maintain test benches for Hub, power electronics, and integrated solar systems.
 * Automate repetitive validation work. Develop automated test scripts, fixtures, instrumentation interfaces, and data collection systems.
 * Measure what matters. Characterize electrical performance, efficiency, communications, thermal behavior, and protection functions.
 * Find the edge cases early. Run functional, environmental, stress, and firmware/hardware regression testing.
 * Make failures reproducible. Build hardware-in-the-loop or other automated system validation where useful.
 * Turn measurements into answers. Analyze data, reproduce failures, isolate root causes, and partner with engineers on fixes.
 * Work across hardware and firmware. Write repeatable test plans, acceptance criteria, procedures, and concise reports.
 * Bring validation into production. Support certification testing, outdoor trials, and end-of-line manufacturing test.