QA Engineer

EdgeX; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeX in San Diego is seeking a QA Engineer with an electrical engineering foundation to own quality across our hardware products. This full-time role focuses on planning, running, and improving tests, with your EE background helping you understand boards and schematics beyond pure functionality.

You’ll collaborate with the EE team, write and review test cases, bring up new revisions, isolate defects, and use benchtop tools to diagnose root causes, ensuring reliability across our assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Ability to read schematics and PCB layouts.
• Fluent in documenting defects and test results.

Responsibilities

• Plan, write, and execute test cases for tags, sensors, and anchor hardware.
• Review schematics and PCB layouts with EE team.
• Perform board bring-up and validation on new revisions.
• Reproduce, isolate, and clearly document defects; drive fixes with engineering.
• Use benchtop equipment to investigate root causes.
• Build and improve test fixtures, checklists, and procedures.
• Support regulatory and compliance testing as needed.

Skills

Schematics reading

Lab benchtop testing

Linux command line

Bug reporting & documentation

Hardware QA mindset

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

KiCad

Altium

Job description

Where RTLS stopped, EdgeX starts. We build battery-powered anchor points, tags, and sensors that deliver real-time asset tracking and environmental monitoring — without the construction, wiring, or IT burden of traditional location systems. Our hardware ships into hospitals, labs, and logistics environments where reliability isn't optional, which is exactly why quality sits at the center of what we do.

About EdgeX

Where RTLS stopped, EdgeX starts. We build battery-powered anchor points, tags, and sensors that deliver real-time asset tracking and environmental monitoring — without the construction, wiring, or IT burden of traditional location systems. Our hardware ships into hospitals, labs, and logistics environments where reliability isn't optional, which is exactly why quality sits at the center of what we do.

The role

We're looking for a QA Engineer with an electrical engineering foundation to own quality across our hardware products. This is a full-time QA role first and foremost — you'll spend most of your time planning, running, and improving tests — but your EE background is what sets you apart: you'll be able to sit in a schematic review, understand why a board behaves the way it does, and catch issues that a purely functional tester would miss.

This role is a fit for someone early in their career who wants to grow, as well as someone with a few years of experience looking to work closer to the hardware. What matters most to us is curiosity — the instinct to keep asking “why is it doing that?” until you actually know.

What you'll do

• Plan, write, and execute test cases and test plans for our tags, sensors, and anchor-point hardware — functional, environmental, and reliability testing.
• Review schematics and PCB layouts alongside our EE team, contributing a test-and-quality perspective (design for testability, likely failure modes, edge cases).
• Perform board bring-up and validation on new revisions, and help characterize behavior against spec.
• Reproduce, isolate, and clearly document defects; work with hardware and firmware engineers to drive them to resolution.
• Use benchtop equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, logic analyzers) to investigate issues down to the root cause.
• Build and improve test fixtures, checklists, and procedures so quality scales as we do.
• Support regulatory and compliance testing efforts as needed.

What we're looking for

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Ability to read and reason about schematics and PCB layouts — you don't need to be a senior hardware designer, but you should be comfortable tracing a signal and understanding a circuit.
• Solid fundamentals with lab/benchtop test equipment.
• Strong written communication — clear, reproducible bug reports and test documentation.
• Curiosity above all. You dig into problems instead of working around them, you ask good questions, and you're not satisfied with “it passed” until you understand why it passed.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable owning quality end-to-end.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line for tasks like flashing firmware onto devices and similar bench/test workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with KiCad (or another EDA tool like Altium / Eagle).
• Hands‑on experience laying out and designing a PCB from scratch, including getting it fabricated (e.g. through JLCPCB or a similar service).
• Familiarity with wireless / RF or IoT hardware.
• Exposure to test automation or scripting (Python, etc.).
• Experience with environmental/reliability testing (thermal, humidity, drop, battery life).
• Prior QA or test experience in a hardware or manufacturing setting.
• Comfort using AI tools to help plan, organize, and speed up day‑to‑day tasking (test case generation, documentation, triage, research, etc.).

• Don't check every box? If you've got the EE foundation and the curiosity, we'd still like to hear from you.