Hardware Test Engineer

Oxide; Minnesota; On-site; USD 233,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Comprehensive health coverage

Job summary

Oxide is seeking an on-site Hardware Test Engineer to lead testing at our contract manufacturers in Rochester and Winona, MN. This role is remote-friendly but requires regular on-site presence to ensure builds meet all functional specifications and test coverage.

You will validate new test functions, work with manufacturing software teams to improve test systems, read schematics, and participate in NPI bring-up and test documentation. Relocation is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience with electrical hardware testing and debugging in rapid NPI environments.
• Ability to use oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, logic analyzers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Oxide on-site hardware test engineering at CM facilities in Rochester and Winona, MN.
• Validate new test functions before production.
• Collaborate with manufacturing software teams to improve test design and processes.
• Interface with test systems, read schematics and drawings to understand the system.
• Participate in NPI bring-up and manufacturing test planning.
• Recommend hardware and BOMs for test systems and DFx feedback.
• Document test procedures and troubleshoot trending failures, root cause analyses.

Job description

Are you an electrical engineer who loves the idea of debugging hardware and developing new methods of testing products? We are seeking an engineer to be our lead onsite Test Engineer to ensure our product has been properly built and can perform all necessary functions.

While Oxide is a remote-friendly company, we think that being physically present during manufacturing is essential to building a great product and strong relationships. This role requires regular on-site presence at our contract manufacturer (CM) in Rochester and Winona, Minnesota (up to 5 days per week). Relocation package is available.

Be the Oxide onsite Hardware Test Engineering subject matter expert. Oxide designs the compute sled, switch, power management controller, and rack integration – and this role will help lead the CM with debugging and troubleshooting these complex hardware systems.

Validate new test functions before transitioning to production.

Work closely with our manufacturing software teams to understand how our systems test our product and provide your inputs on how to improve our test design

Be expected to interface with these systems as you test and troubleshoot our product

Learn about every piece of Oxide’s hardware, from the smallest PCBA to the rack-level, including reading schematics and drawings to understand the system

Participate in new product introduction (NPI) bring-up and participate in development planning with the engineering team for manufacturing and test

Recommend hardware and equipment needed to develop test system bill of materials (BOMs).

Work with the hardware design team to provide DFx feedback and integrate it into Oxide’s product

Work with the team to provide inputs and recommendations for procedural guidance for test documentation

Work with Oxide and CM Quality functions to debug trending failures and provide insight into root cause analyses

Have previous electrical hardware testing and debug experience, specifically in an environment with rapid new product introduction

Are comfortable digging into technical issues with no known solutions, but not too proud to ask for help when it is needed.

Know how to use oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, logic analyzers to debug complex hardware issues

Have experience shipping reading and manipulating software in Rust and bash

Love getting into the weeds of circuit design and love finding new and innovative ways to simulate and test board designs

Have developed and deployed solutions to test extremely high speed data paths

Want to work with the latest technologies, even if you know doing so might come with very limited documentation and having to figure out things yourself

Have experience with leading edge PCB technology and electrical design as well as familiarity with the following areas: DDR4/5, PCIe and I2C/SPI/UART buses

Get energy from enabling robust manufacturing in a rapidly growing company

Have a strong curiosity and drive to achieve the impossible when someone says it can’t be done

Believe in fully documenting your ideas

Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others

Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.

Listen to some of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends . A few recommendations:

We are very explicit about our values , and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.

Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.

Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.

Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process .

Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.

Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.

Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

Working at Oxide

Remote first

Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.

Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.

We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.

Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)