Orbitalindustries
Test Engineer
San Francisco, CA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will own the day-to-day operation of Direct-to-Chip test rigs. You will run tests, troubleshoot hardware, and turn rig output into data for the engineering team.
What you will do
- Lead day-to-day operation of tray and rack level engineering test and validation rigs
- Plan, set up and execute test campaigns against engineering requirements
- Troubleshoot rig faults and drive them to resolution
- Carry out preliminary review of test data for quality and validity
- Feed clean, well-structured data into analysis pipelines
- Report findings back to the engineering team and flag anomalies early
- Propose next steps to drive system efficiency
- Contribute to the final design of tray and rack level test rigs
- Size, identify and procure key rig components, managing suppliers and lead times
- Build and commission rigs, including leak checks and function testing
Required qualifications
- Experience operating test rigs or lab hardware, ideally in a thermal, fluids or electronics cooling context
- Confident with data — able to spot bad readings, sanity-check results and structure output for downstream analysis
- Comfortable with low-voltage wiring, thermocouples and sensor signals
- Practical troubleshooter who works the problem on the rig rather than from a desk
- Able to size and specify components and see procurement through to delivery
Nice to have
- Hands-on capability with 3D printers, CNC or workshop tooling
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Flexible and generous paid time off
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance plan
- Regular company offsites
About the company
Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company with frontier AI embedded in the production of critical physical products. They use CurieOS, an AI operating system, to unite AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science.