Electrical Hardware Validation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive validation and test plans for new PCB designs and embedded electronic systems
• Define functional, electrical, thermal, and reliability test procedures for robotics hardware
• Execute board bring-up, debugging, and characterization activities in the lab
• Validate subsystems including power distribution, DC-DC converters, embedded computing, and sensor interfaces
• Perform lithium battery safety and validation testing
• Develop and execute wire harness reliability and characterization tests
• Design, build, and maintain hardware test fixtures and validation setups
• Investigate hardware failures, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to improve design robustness
• Support automation of repetitive validation tasks using scripting tools

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with PCB debugging or embedded electronics
• Proficiency with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers
• Ability to read schematics, wiring diagrams, and interpret datasheets
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Mechatronics
• Familiarity with power electronics, DC-DC converters, and lithium battery systems
• Experience with communication interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, or Ethernet
• Experience with PCB design tools such as Altium, KiCad, or Cadence
• Experience developing test automation scripts using Python
• Experience with robotics systems or autonomous platforms

About the Company

Skild AI is building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing through data-driven machine learning.