HIL Test Engineer for AI-Driven Robotics and Firmware

Speedrun Talent Network; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. Applied Physical Systems is a small, cross-functional engineering team developing hardware-software integrated systems for factory floor deployment.

You will design and build hardware-in-the-loop test stands, write test frameworks, and run automated campaigns on real hardware. You’ll collaborate with mechatronics, robotics, firmware and controls engineers and with software teams on CI and test data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in electronics, wiring, and safety.
• Proficient Python software engineering for test frameworks and CI.
• Experience instrumenting hardware with sensors and data acquisition.
• Experience building and maintaining HIL test stands and test automation.
• Familiarity with SCPI, CAN and Ethernet interfaces.
• Ability to design and run unattended test campaigns with statistical reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design and build hardware-in-the-loop test stands for robots and sensors.
• Develop test frameworks and dashboards for results.
• Add bench tests to CI for firmware and hardware changes.
• Create safe interfaces for AI agents to run tests on real hardware.
• Run unattended test campaigns and report statistically confident results.
• Decide when simulation suffices vs bench; keep infrastructure running as a service.
• Support integration testing before production release.

Skills

Electrical fundamentals

Bench instruments

Wiring

Python programming

CI / test automation

Data acquisition

Firmware testing

Electromechanical systems

Hardware-in-the-loop testing

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering

Tools

Python

SCPI

CAN

Ethernet

Serial

Test automation frameworks

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. Applied Physical Systems is a small, cross-functional engineering team developing hardware-software integrated systems for factory floor deployment.

You will design and build hardware-in-the-loop test stands, write test frameworks, and run automated campaigns on real hardware. You’ll collaborate with mechatronics, robotics, firmware and controls engineers and with software teams on CI and test data.