Development Test Engineer
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Development test engineer role at Nudge focused on designing and building test systems to evaluate device performance, safety, and reliability across mechanical, electrical, acoustic, fabrication, and software components; translating risk into high-signal experiments before clinical use; executing tests and feeding learnings back into design; owning a library of validation and characterization tests as the system evolves.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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 and strong professional judgement
Skills
Required:Hardware-in-the-loop testingSystems thinkingExperiment designAutonomous collaboration
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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