Integration Engineer - Hands
San Carlos, CA$125.1k - $220.8kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Hands team integrates test engineering with hardware development to validate NEO’s hands, actuators, encoders, and sensors from bench characterization to production testing and field returns.
Responsibilities
- Build automated pass/fail test scripts that log data and generate plots to characterize hand actuators, encoders, and sensors with repeatable, trustworthy results
- Own and maintain test PCs and production stations, keeping them healthy, networked, and running validated software
- Turn failures into answers by pulling logs, pinpointing the moment a failure happened, and writing clear root-cause summaries that drive design and process fixes
- Write repeatable procedures and build tests that technicians can run safely and consistently on live production equipment
- Design and build test fixtures and jigs that speed up validation of hands, grippers, and high-cycle actuators
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in hardware test, validation, or manufacturing test engineering
- Experience writing software for test and test automation, including pass/fail test scripts, data logging, and plotting
- Strong electromechanical fundamentals: motors (FOC basics, torque, current, back-EMF), encoders, gearing, and friction
- Comfort working in Linux, including SSH, process and service management, and troubleshooting disks and networks
- Hands-on bench experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, thermocouples, load cells, wiring, and fixturing
- Embedded and firmware literacy: able to build and flash firmware onto boards and read C/C++ well enough to trace a fault back to its source
- Working knowledge of Git, including branching, keeping branches up to date with main, and opening clean merge requests
Skills
Required:Test automation scriptingElectromechanical testingLinux and toolingFirmware debugging
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
- Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
- Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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