Hardware Test Lead

The role

You will establish the hardware test system, team, and culture. You will define testing requirements, run DVT and certification campaigns, and automate testing processes.

What you will do

• Establish the hardware test system, team, and culture
• Own DVT and certification
• Systematize qualification campaigns
• Perform reliability and abuse testing
• Establish RCA practice for field failures
• Automate repetitive testing
• Decide between in-house testing and outsourcing
• Manage lab relationships and equipment business cases
• Hire and mentor test engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware test and qualification in automotive, aerospace, defense, or industrial products
• Experience taking hardware through DVT and certification end to end
• Deep knowledge of reliability, abuse, environmental, and electrical stress test methodology
• Experience writing DVT plans from product requirements through execution and reporting
• Statistical characterization of margins and trend spotting
• Proficiency with environmental chambers, electronics test gear, EMC instrumentation, vibration equipment, and general bench tools
• Python and Linux proficiency
• Experience managing external labs and negotiating test scope
• Experience justifying equipment spend
• Clear writing for procedures, reports, and equipment justifications

Nice to have

• Formal certification experience with FCC, CE, or UL submissions
• Experience with extreme-environment products
• Manufacturing test experience
• Failure analysis techniques such as cross-sectioning, X-ray, or SEM
• Experience standing up a test function or team from scratch at an early-stage hardware company

About the company

Specter's mission is to help customers automate the physical world. They build video sensors with AI agents to detect and reason about physical activity.