Electrical Test Engineer, Advanced Sensors

HRL Laboratories Job Posting

HRL Laboratories pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science. Delivering transformative technologies in automotive, aerospace and defense, HRL advances the critical missions of its customers to help them remove limitations and create competitive advantage. HRL then transitions the work back to customers – ready for real-world application. For more than 70 years, HRL's rich portfolio of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations continues to build on each other — often in unexpected, profound and far-reaching ways.

As a private company owned jointly by Boeing and GM, HRL prioritizes purpose over profit, significantly advancing the state of the art. HRL Laboratories advances critical structural and functional materials and semiconductor devices that enable precision navigation, quantum technologies and extreme-environment performance. With expertise from design through deployment, we deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that transform our customers' missions. Our work leverages digital manufacturing and scalable microfabrication techniques to meet tomorrow's toughest challenges.

HRL's compact, high-performance MEMS IMUs are revolutionizing navigation systems by delivering reliable guidance in GPS-degraded environments. Engineered with navigation-grade precision, these IMUs provide a cost-effective and scalable solution for automotive, aerospace, and other demanding applications where traditional GPS reliance falls short. These innovations aim to deliver a first-of-its-kind navigation-grade product that combines reliability, precision, and affordability. By offering a viable alternative to traditional IMUs, HRL's MEMS technology is advancing the capabilities of autonomous systems and enabling precise navigation in challenging environments.

• Develop system level validation by defining test plans, developing pass/fail criteria, and ensuring release readiness through robust test coverage and reproducible results

• Partner cross functionally to ensure requirements flow down, system integration readiness, and technical documentation needed for smooth transition to low-rate production

• Maintain configuration control, support engineering change processes, and prepare prototypes and early production IMUs for external evaluation and qualification

• Perform testing, characterization, and assembly of advanced electronic and hardware assemblies

• Analyze, report and present test results to technical staff and management

• Operate electronic test equipment to verify, evaluate, and troubleshoot instrumentation systems and components

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Electronics Technology, Physics, or related field

• 3+ years of related hands-on electronics experience

• Experience managing production and test documentation as well as requirements validation and artifact production

• Knowledge of fundamental electrical engineering and circuit design principles

• Proficiency with MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, or similar for data analysis and automation

• Experience using test equipment (e.g. VNA, TDR, oscilloscope)

• Strong hardware fundamentals (analog, digital, mixed signal, power) and understanding of how they interact with embedded firmware

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work well in a team and independently

• Experience with IMU or MEMS development, including prototype bring up, and performance validation

• Experience with IMU test equipment (vibration systems, shock testers, rate tables, centrifuges, thermal chambers) and test automation/instrumentation interfaces

• Hands-on experience with GNC integration, test and evaluation

• Proficiency in use of computers, engineering workstations, electronic equipment, oral and written communication, interaction with vendors/colleagues and willingness to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• Experience with Xilinx Vivado, Ultra Scale architectures, or ASIC platforms

• Experience reading schematic designs using tools like Altium Designer

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