Field Test & Validation Engineer — Radar & RF Sensors

US Health Partners, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Insurance benefits

Lunch and dinner served daily

Job summary

Austin Sensing Company in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Field Test and Validation Engineer to design and run tests that show what our sensing systems can reliably detect, track, and withstand in real operating conditions. You’ll work at our dedicated test site, with occasional travel to customer locations and military facilities as needed, turning results into concrete engineering recommendations.

This role requires hands-on testing, data analysis in Python or MATLAB, and clear technical writing

Qualifications

• Experience testing and validating hardware systems in outdoor or operational environments.
• The ability to turn product requirements into measurable tests and clear acceptance criteria.
• Experience designing controlled experiments and accounting for measurement uncertainty.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or a comparable tool for data analysis and test automation.
• Hands-on troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, networking, and power systems.
• Experience collecting and analyzing synchronized data from multiple devices.
• Clear technical writing and the ability to explain results, limitations, and recommended next steps.
• Willingness to work at our test site 4–7 days per week, including weekends, and travel to other test locations as needed.
• Comfort setting up and operating equipment outdoors in changing conditions.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans and acceptance criteria for radar, acoustic, and RF sensing systems.
• Run field tests that measure detection range, probability of detection, false alarm rates, tracking accuracy, coverage, and latency.
• Establish ground truth using independent position measurements, synchronized logs, and documented target activity.
• Evaluate performance across different targets, terrain, weather, clutter, interference, and installation configurations.
• Coordinate test sites, equipment, target vehicles, and personnel so tests are safe, repeatable, and productive.
• Set up sensors, networking, power, data recording, and instrumentation in the lab and field.
• Analyze test data, investigate unexpected results, and distinguish product issues from test setup errors.
• Work with RF, signal processing, embedded systems, and software engineers to reproduce failures and verify fixes.
• Build scripts and tools for data collection, analysis, and repeatable performance reporting.
• Maintain test records that identify hardware versions, software versions, configurations, conditions, and results.
• Work with deployment engineers to validate performance at customer sites and bring field findings back to engineering.

Skills

Experience testing and validating hw

Turn product requirements into tests

Controlled experiments & uncertainty

Python or MATLAB data analysis

Hardware, software, networking, power

Synchronized data collection

Technical writing & communication

Willingness to travel/test site work

Outdoor equipment operation

Education

Electrical/Mechanical/Aerospace/Physics degree or related field

Tools

GNSS

RTK

Job description

Austin Sensing Company in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Field Test and Validation Engineer to design and run tests that show what our sensing systems can reliably detect, track, and withstand in real operating conditions. You’ll work at our dedicated test site, with occasional travel to customer locations and military facilities as needed, turning results into concrete engineering recommendations.

This role requires hands-on testing, data analysis in Python or MATLAB, and clear technical writing