Senior Hardware Test Engineer — Athlete Systems

Job Description Job Description

Duration: 12 month contract w/ possible extensions

• This position is onsite role for the hybrid work schedule
• • Minimum required years of experience: 5+ YOE in Test Engineering for physical products
  • Education requirements:
    Bachelors or equivalent exp
• Must have skills:
• • Recruiting participants for tests, running the tests, aggregating data from the tests and running analysis, working with engineering teams to make product improvements
  • Making process improvements, asks questions, a self starter, is curious to dig into the project and lead innovation
• Software/technical requirements:
• • Python scripts, analysis tools, Ai tools for data analysis, Excel
  • Mat Lab
  • Previous Retail domain /industry experience preference:
    Yes

• Nice to have skills:
• • Collecting data from sensors, force plates, motion capture, treadmills, athletic technology, or familiarity with the human gate
  • Working with Athletes and work through them using the product
  • This can be a very repetitive job, they need to be interested in that kind of work.
  • They should also be comfortable working with test participants and being in social environments

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, technically curious, and comfortable working at the intersection of athlete experience and system behavior. You enjoy creating and executing structured testing and turning complex system behavior into clear, actionable insight for engineering teams.

What You Will Work On

• Plan, recruit, schedule and execute frequent, hands-on athlete testing of experimental athlete systems for walking, running, and other real-world scenarios
• Conduct hands‐on testing with athletes and actively gather qualitative feedback, while working effectively with early‐stage systems that may evolve or behave inconsistently
• Support both continuous, real-world testing and structured, protocol-driven validation to ensure full requirements coverage
• Collect, analyze, and categorize system and usage data to identify trends, regressions, and anomalies
• Capture and document unexpected or undesirable behaviors with clear steps to reproduce and supporting data
• Perform issue triaging and initial root cause investigation to help direct issues to the appropriate engineering subsystem team
• Perform regression testing across releases to ensure consistent function
• Leverage AI tools to support test execution, data analysis, and synthesis of complex system behavior into actionable insights
• Translate athlete feedback and qualitative perception into structured, comparable findings
• Manage multiple testing tracks in parallel, including ongoing athlete testing, structured protocol validation, and timely analysis of incoming data
• Partner closely with engineering, research, and program teams to support release readiness and quality gates

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training
• 5 + years of experience in system testing, validation, or quality-focused technical roles
• Experience with human subject testing, field testing, or real-world system validation
• Experience testing or debugging electromechanical, robotic, or software-driven systems
• Builder and maker mindset with the ability to define testing approaches, create structure from ambiguity, and operate independently without step-by-step guidance
• Strong ability to observe, isolate, and describe unexpected system behavior
• Experience analyzing data using tools such as MATLAB or Python
• Experience with embedded sensors, mechatronics, or hardware-software integrated systems

Nice to Have

• Background in biomechanics, human movement, or applied mechanics
• Experience with embedded sensors, mechatronics, or hardware-software integrated systems
• Skilled at using LLMs and modern AI tools such as Cursor or similar to accelerate testing, analysis, and technical workflows
• High attention to detail and comfort executing repeatable test protocols
• Strong technical intuition and curiosity about system behavior
• Ability to work in fast-paced, iterative environments with frequent releases
• Team-first mindset with a bias toward clarity and rigor

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