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About the Role

As a Hardware Test Engineer for the robotics program, you will establish and own the test function, including rigs, instrumentation, test plans, and reliability data to ensure robots are ready for deployment. This hands-on role involves designing and building fixtures, owning failures from identification to resolution, and conducting field testing.

Responsibilities

Design and build test harnesses, rigs, and fixtures for robotic systems from subsystem to production-representative levels.
Develop executable test plans covering functional, durability, accelerated life, and environmental testing, including SOPs for parallel execution.
Instrument machines and rigs with sensors (load cells, strain gauges, thermocouples, accelerometers, encoders) and manage the associated DAQ and data pipeline.
Conduct environmental testing to characterize design limits, including high temperature, thermal cycling, dust ingress, vibration, shock, humidity, and UV exposure.
Own root cause analysis, including failure reproduction, isolation, and collaboration with the design team for fix implementation and validation.
Build reliability models from test and field data, estimating life, failure distributions, and required sample sizes.
Automate test execution, reporting, and dashboards to track failures and frequency.
Qualify machines for field deployment and collaborate cross-functionally on end-of-line acceptance tests.

Requirements

4+ years in hardware test, validation, or reliability engineering on robotic, vehicle, or electromechanical systems.
Proven track record designing and building own test rigs and fixtures with CAD and GD&T fluency.
In-depth knowledge of instrumentation and DAQ, including setup techniques for trustworthy measurements.
Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals and structured root cause analysis methods (e.g., 8D, 5-Why).
Experience with accelerated life and durability testing.
Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting for test automation and data analysis.
Ability to exercise judgment on rig requirements, demonstrating high ownership, a bias for speed, and comfort with ambiguity.

Skills

CAD
GD&T
Load cells
Strain gauges
Thermocouples
Accelerometers
Encoders
DAQ
Root cause analysis
8D
5-Why
Teardown
Accelerated life testing
Durability testing
Python
Test automation
Data analysis
Weibull statistics
MTBF
Sample sizing
Confidence intervals
Weibull++
JMP
Structural static testing
Structural fatigue testing

Location

San Francisco
West Texas

Work Type

Onsite
Field testing

Experience Level

4+ years

Benefits

Up to $15K relocation bonus
Unlimited PTO
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
$1K monthly stipend for meals

About the Company

TAR is building the world's first off-grid power plants for data centers using renewable technologies.
The company's mission is to power intelligence globally and ensure AI is built in the US with fast, clean, and scalable power.
TAR vertically integrates to address bottlenecks in hardware and software, from racking systems to dispatch algorithms.
TAR is a hardware and software company developing critical physical infrastructure.
TAR is collaborating with a major compute provider to deploy 5GW by 2028.
Company values include high ownership, agency, speed, first principles thinking, and passion for solving the energy problem.