Hardware Test & Verification Engineer

As a Hardware Test & Verification Engineer at Carbon Robotics you will work with the designers on the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering teams to develop verification and validation plans and then test components and systems to ensure high product reliability from day one. You will provide expertise while working closely with MEs and EEs to determine the appropriate methods of compliance and test techniques to ensure our electrical including PCBs and structural components are suitable for the demanding applications of low maintenance agricultural robots.  You will then be responsible for setting up running and analyzing the results of a multitude of different types of tests either at our facility or at test houses. Above all you’ll do whatever it takes including travel to customer farms and our manufacturing facilities to ensure our customers have safe and reliable products that meet or exceed their expectations. 

What you’ll do:

• Work on a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team to ensure the successful development deployment and sustainment of multiple revolutionary robotics products.
• Lead component level qualification test design and execution 
• Determine target test environments write test and compliance plans operate test equipment and coordinate with external test houses.
• Specific areas of testing include Shock/Vibe Climatic Power Distribution Testing PCB specific testing and structural testing. 
• Manage component level acceptance test design and vendor management
• Coordinate with vendors to ensure appropriate component level acceptance level test plans are in place and are followed. Perform audits as necessary. 
• System level test design and execution 
• Develop test plans and execute full system integrated testing to ensure functionality performance and reliability meet product requirements. 
• Standards and Compliance scoping and documentation
• Determine regulations/standards that apply to our products in the targeted sales jurisdictions and work with the HW team to develop compliance packages.  
• Support safe system design and compliance with safety regulatory bodies. 

• 4+ years experience in both hands-on verification validation and testing roles. 
• Extensive experience setting up operating and analyzing results from shock/vibe structural climatic power distribution and PCB specific test equipment. 
• Extensive experience collaborating with ME and EE design engineers to evaluate their designs build verification and validation plans and track progress to those plans.  
• Experience coordinating with external test houses. 
• Experience working with component vendors to implement and/or monitor their pre-delivery acceptance testing. 
• Good understanding of underlying ME and EE design principles and hands on experience with structural electronics and PCB troubleshooting.
• Ability to comfortably use CAD and PCB design tools such as Solidworks and Altium. 
• Solid familiarity with applicable UL IPC and SAE codes and compliance to them. 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills including writing test and compliance reports.
• Demonstrated ability to work with direct and matrixed management to achieve timely objectives. 
• 20%+ travel to test houses in field testing units and vendors expected
• BS in Electrical Engineering and/or Mechanical Engineering

What We Do

Carbon Robotics builds the industry-leading AI-powered LaserWeeder™ which combines computer vision AI deep learning technology robotics and lasers to identify crops versus weeds - and shoots the weeds with lasers. More than 100 of the world’s largest specialty crop growers have deployed LaserWeeders™ in North America Europe and Australia. This no-touch precision technology is effective day and night in over 100 crops in both organic and conventional farming. LaserWeeders™ are designed at Carbon Robotics headquarters in Seattle Washington and manufactured in our state of the art new manufacturing facility in Richland Washington. Carbon Robotics has raised $157 million in capital since 2018 from investors that include BOND NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) Anthos Capital Fuse Venture Capital Ignition Partners Revolution Sozo Ventures and Voyager Capital. What’s it like working at Carbon Robotics? We are a no-nonsense team of passionate people with a bias for action. We know that our ability to execute on our ideas is what sets us apart. We do what we say we are going to do externally and internally. We trust our people to act independently and make practical real-world decisions.

Why Work With Us

The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder™ implement uses precision computer vision and sophisticated AI to kill weeds with millimeter accuracy. Laserweeding delivers consistency that puts growers back in control of their schedules amid labor shortages chemical concerns and rising costs. For high-density crops laserweeding is the only automated solution.

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