Hardware Test Engineer – Data Acquisition & Reliability

General Matter; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Matter in the United States is seeking a Test Engineer to own test infrastructure and support design, setup, and operations to validate hardware developed by the design engineers. This role ensures hardware meets requirements during development and supports long-term system reliability.

You will design and maintain custom test solutions, lead test plans, collaborate with design and manufacturing engineers to improve reliability, and build automation for testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical or similar engineering field.
• 2+ years of hardware development or test engineering experience.
• Ability to design and fabricate test fixtures, adapters, and other tools for testing.
• Experience with digital hardware communication/integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain custom test solutions and data acquisition systems for in-house developed mechanical and electrical hardware.
• Lead design reviews, run data analysis, visit vendors, define and execute hardware test plans.
• Work closely with responsible design and manufacturing engineers to drive reliability improvements
• Build test equipment, implement test automation, analyze failures and execute qualification campaigns.

Skills

Hardware development

Test fixture design

Digital hardware integration

Test equipment

Fluid/electrical systems

Finite element analysis

Test automation

Data acquisition

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical or similar engineering field

Job description

General Matter in the United States is seeking a Test Engineer to own test infrastructure and support design, setup, and operations to validate hardware developed by the design engineers. This role ensures hardware meets requirements during development and supports long-term system reliability.

You will design and maintain custom test solutions, lead test plans, collaborate with design and manufacturing engineers to improve reliability, and build automation for testing.