HIL Test Engineer for Autonomous Manufacturing

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian builds autonomous factories to reindustrialize America, combining AI, software, robotics and full-stack manufacturing. The Applied Physical Systems team designs and commissions hardware-software integrated test systems, turning proofs of concept into production-ready benches on the factory floor.

You will design, build and run hardware-in-the-loop test stands, develop test frameworks and CI pipelines, and collaborate with mechatronics, firmware and software engineers to ensure robust,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering or related field.
• Strong electrical fundamentals, including bench instruments, wiring and safety.
• Proficient Python software engineering, including test frameworks, CI and version control.
• Systems engineering fundamentals: tracing requirements to tests and managing interfaces.
• Experience instrumenting hardware with sensors: selection, mounting, calibration.
• Experience data acquisition: sampling, triggering, time synchronization.
• Experience flashing, debugging and testing firmware on microcontrollers.
• Experience integrating and validating electromechanical systems.
• Experience building automated test stands or HIL systems end-to-end (SCPI/serial/CAN/Ethernet).
• Extensive use of AI tools for testing and validating outputs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build hardware-in-the-loop test stands for robots and subsystems.
• Build test frameworks, control interfaces, fixtures and dashboards.
• Add bench tests to CI to validate firmware/hardware changes on real hardware.
• Create interfaces for AI agents to run tests on real hardware.
• Run unattended, repeatable test campaigns and report results with statistics.

Skills

Electrical fundamentals

Python

Systems engineering

Firmware testing

Test automation

HIL systems

SCPI/serial/CAN/Ethernet

AI tools usage

Robot/test bench design

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering

Tools

Python

CI

SCPI

CAN

Ethernet

Job description

Hadrian builds autonomous factories to reindustrialize America, combining AI, software, robotics and full-stack manufacturing. The Applied Physical Systems team designs and commissions hardware-software integrated test systems, turning proofs of concept into production-ready benches on the factory floor.

You will design, build and run hardware-in-the-loop test stands, develop test frameworks and CI pipelines, and collaborate with mechatronics, firmware and software engineers to ensure robust,