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Hardware Test Engineer

Oxide Computer Company· Operations
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Rochester, MN, Winona, MN$275kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead onsite Hardware Test Engineer responsible for debugging, testing, and validating Oxide’s complex hardware systems at contract manufacturers in Minnesota; remote-friendly with required on-site presence up to 5 days/week.

Responsibilities

  • Be the Oxide onsite Hardware Test Engineering subject matter expert. Oxide designs the compute sled, switch, power management controller, and rack integration – and this role will help lead the CM with debugging and troubleshooting these complex hardware systems.
  • Validate new test functions before transitioning to production.
  • Work closely with our manufacturing software teams to understand how our systems test our product and provide your inputs on how to improve our test design
  • Be expected to interface with these systems as you test and troubleshoot our product
  • Learn about every piece of Oxide’s hardware, from the smallest PCBA to the rack-level, including reading schematics and drawings to understand the system
  • Participate in new product introduction (NPI) bring-up and participate in development planning with the engineering team for manufacturing and test
  • Recommend hardware and equipment needed to develop test system bill of materials (BOMs).
  • Work with the hardware design team to provide DFx feedback and integrate it into Oxide’s product
  • Work with the team to provide inputs and recommendations for procedural guidance for test documentation
  • Work with Oxide and CM Quality functions to debug trending failures and provide insight into root cause analyses

Qualifications

  • Have previous electrical hardware testing and debug experience, specifically in an environment with rapid new product introduction
  • Are comfortable digging into technical issues with no known solutions, but not too proud to ask for help when it is needed.
  • Know how to use oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, logic analyzers to debug complex hardware issues
  • Have experience shipping reading and manipulating software in Rust and bash
  • Love getting into the weeds of circuit design and love finding new and innovative ways to simulate and test board designs
  • Have developed and deployed solutions to test extremely high speed data paths
  • Want to work with the latest technologies, even if you know doing so might come with very limited documentation and having to figure out things yourself
  • Have experience with leading edge PCB technology and electrical design as well as familiarity with: DDR4/5, PCIe and I2C/SPI/UART buses
  • Get energy from enabling robust manufacturing in a rapidly growing company
  • Have a strong curiosity and drive to achieve the impossible when someone says it can’t be done
  • Believe in fully documenting your ideas
  • Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others

Skills

Required:Electrical hardware testing and debuggingOscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, frequency counters, logic analyzersRust and BashCircuit design and high-speed data path testingNPI bring-up
Nice to have:DFx feedback and documentation

Benefits

  • Premium healthcare
  • Compensation: Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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