Senior Test Engineer

Wilder Systems; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO

Job summary

Wilder Systems, based in Oklahoma City, OK, builds robotic systems for aerospace manufacturing and MRO, deploying on factory floors and flight lines worldwide.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will own test strategy and requirements for mechanical and electromechanical systems, and lead test design and reporting with engineering teams.

Travel up to 25% for deployments and integrations; compensation ranges from $100,000 to $120,000 with standard benefits.

Qualifications

• Track record owning test strategy for a mechanical or electromechanical system.
• Hands-on experience designing test fixtures, rigs and instrumentation.
• Deep experience with functional, structural/fatigue, tolerance, and environmental testing.
• Hands-on debugging of mechanical-electromechanical integration on real hardware.
• Strong fundamentals in measurement, sensors, calibration, and interpreting test data.
• Experience setting test requirements and mentoring other test engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the system's test strategy and requirements across mechanical and electromechanical components.
• Design and build test fixtures, rigs, and data-acquisition setups for performance measurement.
• Define and run functional, structural, fatigue, and environmental tests, troubleshooting root causes with engineering teams.
• Own test plans, procedures, and result reports for each release in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Set the quality bar and mentor Test Engineer I and II through test design and review.

Skills

Test strategy

Test fixtures design

Instrumentation & data acquisition

Environmental testing

Mentoring

Debugging hardware

Tools

LabVIEW

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Senior Test Engineer

Job Summary

Wilder Systems builds robots that do precision work across aerospace manufacturing and MRO — drilling, fastening, sanding, and inspection — on systems deployed to factory floors and flight lines worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Test strategy & requirements — own the test strategy and requirements for a system, across its mechanical and electromechanical components.
• Test fixtures & instrumentation — design and build the test fixtures, rigs, and data-acquisition/instrumentation setups (load cells, strain gauges, sensors, DAQ) that measure performance and catch failures before they reach the field.
• Functional, structural & environmental testing — define and run functional, tolerance, durability/fatigue, and environmental tests, and troubleshoot mechanical-hardware failures to root cause with the mechanical, electrical, and hardware teams.
• Test documentation & reporting — own the test plans, procedures, and result reports for each release, in collaboration with the engineering teams.
• Technical leadership — set the quality bar, own test requirements across components, and mentor Test Engineer I and II through test design and review.

Required Experience

• A track record owning test strategy for a mechanical or electromechanical system or product end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on experience designing test fixtures, rigs, and instrumentation for physical systems.
• Deep experience with functional, structural/fatigue, tolerance, and environmental testing of complex hardware.
• Hands-on debugging of mechanical and electromechanical integration issues on real hardware.
• Solid fundamentals in measurement and data acquisition: instrumentation, sensors, calibration, and interpreting test data.
• A track record setting test requirements and mentoring other test engineers.

Preferred Experience

• Testing robotics, industrial automation, or other cyber-physical systems.
• Precision machinery, motion systems, or actuation.
• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test development.
• Metrology, GD&T, and dimensional inspection.
• Tolerance stack-up analysis and mechanical failure analysis.
• Comfort with scripting or test-automation tools for data acquisition and analysis (e.g., LabVIEW, MATLAB, or light Python) — a plus, not a requirement.
• Familiarity with the domains under test — motion, calibration, precision machining, and fastening.

Travel

Up to 25% for system deployments, on-site integration, and customer support.

Work Location

In person — Oklahoma City, OK.

Compensation

$100,000 – $120,000

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• PTO

General Requirements

US Citizen or Permanent Resident