Robotics & Camera Hardware Test Engineer

Hellbender; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Safe Harbor 5%

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO 7.5 weeks

Profit sharing

Job summary

Hellbender Inc. in Pittsburgh is seeking a Test Engineer to develop, execute, and improve test strategies for complex hardware systems from prototype to production.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, and quality teams to validate performance, diagnose issues, and automate tests for reliability in real-world conditions. The role requires hands-on technical ability, structured problem solving, and strong documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience testing electromechanical, robotic, camera, sensor, embedded, or similarly complex hardware systems in R&D, validation, or production environments.
• Ability to translate product requirements, engineering intent, and failure modes into clear test plans, procedures, acceptance criteria, and reports.
• Experience with test equipment such as DMMs, oscilloscopes, current probes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, signal generators, and data acquisition tools.
• Experience with mechanical and electrical integration, including PCBAs, cable harnesses, motors, actuators, sensors, cameras, optics, embedded compute, and power systems.
• Experience creating or maintaining test fixtures, harnesses, test stations, calibration methods, and work instructions for engineering and production use.
• Ability to read and understand PCB schematics, wiring diagrams, mechanical drawings, interface control documents, and product specifications.

Responsibilities

• Develop, document, and execute test plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria for electro-mechanical, robotic, camera, sensor, and embedded hardware systems.
• Design, build, modify, and maintain test stations, fixtures, harnesses, and support equipment for engineering validation, production test, and troubleshooting.
• Create automated or semi-automated test tools, scripts, data collection methods, and analysis workflows to improve repeatability, throughput, and visibility into product performance.
• Analyze test results, identify trends and failure modes, document anomalies, and drive root-cause investigation with engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Validate camera and sensor performance, including image quality, calibration, alignment, timing, connectivity, and environmental robustness.
• Attend/support off-site third party tested for certifications or when internal resources are not adequate.
• Support system-level and component-level troubleshooting of PCBAs, wire assemblies, motors, actuators, cameras, sensors, power systems, and related electro-mechanical equipment.
• Support bring-up, integration, verification, and debug of new and existing PCBAs, subassemblies, prototypes, and finished products.
• Maintain accurate engineering documentation, including test procedures, work instructions, test reports, failure analysis summaries, and equipment configuration records.
• Provide feedback to improve product design robustness, manufacturability, serviceability, and test coverage.

Skills

Test planning

Hardware testing

Root cause analysis

Test automation

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

DMMs

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Python

MATLAB

Data acquisition

Job description

Hellbender Inc. in Pittsburgh is seeking a Test Engineer to develop, execute, and improve test strategies for complex hardware systems from prototype to production.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, and quality teams to validate performance, diagnose issues, and automate tests for reliability in real-world conditions. The role requires hands-on technical ability, structured problem solving, and strong documentation.