Senior Hardware Validation Engineer - Autonomous Drone Systems

Wing

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 211,000 - 224,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Wing in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Validation Engineer to join the Electrical Engineering team onsite. You will lead system-level validation and optimization for aircraft and ground infrastructure, ensuring hardware quality and reliability.

You will collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to design verification plans, run tests, and resolve issues from concept to mass production, contributing to next-generation unmanned delivery technology.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in consumer electronics/embedded system design engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • Experience coordinating OEM/ODM/JDM/CM partners and working with CPU/chipset, memory vendors.
  • Understand the product development process for mass-volume production with focus on DFM and DFT.
  • Experience in signal/power integrity, simulation and lab correlation; scripting for test automation.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leader managing overall hardware system design integrity and quality optimization of our aircraft and ground infrastructure.
  • Lead cross functional collaboration in owning test plan development, managing validation plans, troubleshooting issues, and documenting results to ensure product design quality and system performance.
  • Lead complete design verification planning and test execution, including signal characterization, power delivery and system interoperability testing through leveraging internal and partner resources.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and drive issues resolution including those related to hardware architecture, system performance, production quality and overall system integration.
  • Lead contract manufacturing partners and suppliers on transitioning products from concept to mass production and partner with engineering team leaders to assess the technical feasibility of the system program schedule.

Skills

Technical leadership
Cross-functional collaboration
Test plan development
System-level hardware design
Verification and validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
Related technical field

Tools

CAN
USB
I2C
RS232
Ethernet
GPS
IMUs
Air Data Systems
Servos/Motors
Cameras
RF Communications

Job description

Wing in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Validation Engineer to join the Electrical Engineering team onsite. You will lead system-level validation and optimization for aircraft and ground infrastructure, ensuring hardware quality and reliability.

You will collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to design verification plans, run tests, and resolve issues from concept to mass production, contributing to next-generation unmanned delivery technology.

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