Test Engineer

Overview

About Nudge
At Nudge, our mission is to develop the best technology for interfacing with the brain to improve people's lives. We're pursuing a non-invasive, ultrasound-based device that can stimulate and image the brain at high resolution and depth. This is a vertically integrated effort building cutting-edge hardware, software, and research capabilities to create products that can benefit millions — and eventually billions — of people.

We’ve brought together a team of the best, who believe hard things are worth doing. To succeed, we need to assemble world-class teams across everything we do. We hire people who are exceptional at their craft, do the real work, and execute relentlessly — people who expect the highest levels of both rigor and integrity from each other.

As a Test Engineer at Nudge, you will:

• Design and build test systems to evaluate device performance, safety, and reliability with mechanical, electrical, acoustic, fabrication, and software components.
• Identify what matters most to test at a system level and translate risk into high-signal experiments before clinical use.
• Execute tests, analyze results, and feed clear learnings back into device and system design.
• Own and grow a library of validation and characterization tests as the system evolves.

We are looking for Test Engineers with at least 4 years of industry experience. Regardless of your career level, you should have:

• Experience building and running hardware-in-the-loop or instrumentation-heavy tests (acoustic, mechanical, electrical, or mixed-domain)
• A degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, engineering physics, or similar) or equivalent hands-on experience
• Strong systems-level thinking of the entire device rather than isolated components
• Comfort designing scrappy, fast experiments focused on learning and risk reduction rather than polish
• Proven ability to work autonomously while collaborating closely with interdisciplinary engineering teams
• A track record of building custom test setups from scratch when no standard test exists
• High integrity