Electrical Engineer - Product Testing (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: On-site in Clarksburg, Maryland, United States

Salary: $90,000–$165,000 per year, plus equity for most full-time high-demand roles.

Company

Develops autonomous vehicle platforms, weapons, sensors, and battlefield systems through integrated autonomous networks.

What you will do

• Design hardware validation strategies for boards and subsystems used in autonomous vehicle platforms.
• Develop automated test systems, scripts, and frameworks for engineering validation, regression testing, and manufacturing screening.
• Design test fixtures, harnesses, interface boards, bed-of-nails fixtures, debug adapters, and instrumentation interfaces.
• Design and debug digital and analog circuits, perform board bring-up, and investigate hardware issues with laboratory instrumentation.
• Define test plans, coverage, validation methods, and data analysis frameworks across prototype, EVT/DVT, and production phases.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and PLM teams to release scalable and repeatable test infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong experience in hardware validation and automated test development.
• Hands-on experience designing test fixtures, hardware test adapters, or validation systems.
• Deep familiarity with hardware debugging and laboratory instrumentation.
• Strong understanding of design-for-test and hardware validation methodologies.
• Ability to work across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams, with basic knowledge of networking configurations and protocols.
• May require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, Boundary Scan, or similar automated hardware test frameworks.
• Experience with bed-of-nails systems, hardware interface boards, networking hardware, embedded systems, or robotics platforms.
• Experience in automotive, defense, or high-reliability hardware systems.
• Exposure to signal integrity, power integrity, ISO 26262, MIL-STD, or other reliability standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity eligibility for most high-demand roles.
• Three premium healthcare plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with 80% of premiums covered for employees and dependents.
• 20 days of accrued paid time off, a generous holiday calendar, and a December winter break.
• At least seven weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• $9,000 annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Paid disability and basic life insurance, plus a 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4%.

Hiring process

• Recruiters provide additional details about compensation and benefits during the hiring process.