HIL Test Engineer for Robotics & Autonomous Manufacturing

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories in Los Angeles to reindustrialize America. We design systems that blend hardware and software for rapid manufacturing.

The role focuses on creating robust test infrastructure, hardware-in-loop platforms, and AI-assisted validation to accelerate development across robotics and control systems. You will collaborate with mechatronics, firmware, and software teams to deploy end-to-end test campaigns, ensuring scalable, reliable bench automation on a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering, or a related field.
• Strong electrical fundamentals, including bench instruments, wiring and electrical safety.
• Strong software engineering in Python, including test frameworks, CI and version control.
• Systems engineering fundamentals, including tracing requirements to tests and managing interfaces.
• Experience instrumenting hardware with sensors, including selection, mounting and calibration.
• Experience with data acquisition, including sampling, triggering and 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, including instrument control over SCPI, serial, CAN or Ethernet.
• Heavy daily use of AI tools and agents, with experience reviewing and verifying outputs for quality and completeness.

Responsibilities

• Design and build hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) test stands for robots, end effectors, sensors and machine subsystems
• Build test frameworks, including instrument and device control, fixtures, stimulus, results schema and dashboards
• Add bench tests to CI so that firmware and hardware changes run on real hardware before release
• Build safe interfaces for AI agents to run tests and experiments on real hardware
• Run unattended, repeatable test campaigns and report results with their statistical confidence
• Decide which questions simulation can answer and which ones need the bench
• Keep test infrastructure running as a service that other teams depend on
• Support integration and acceptance testing of new automation before it reaches production

Skills

Python

CI tests

Electrical fundamentals

Systems engineering

Firmware testing

Data acquisition

Hardware-in-loop

AI tool usage

Education

Electrical/Computer/Mechanical engineering degree

Tools

SCPI

CAN

Ethernet

Serial

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories in Los Angeles to reindustrialize America. We design systems that blend hardware and software for rapid manufacturing.

The role focuses on creating robust test infrastructure, hardware-in-loop platforms, and AI-assisted validation to accelerate development across robotics and control systems. You will collaborate with mechatronics, firmware, and software teams to deploy end-to-end test campaigns, ensuring scalable, reliable bench automation on a