Role Name: Test Engineer/ Senior Test Engineer
Department: Manufacturing
Location: San Carlos
Your Charter: Develop and own test systems for NEO's electronics and robotic subassemblies as they move from design release into high-volume production. This is a hands-on role spanning software, electronics, firmware, fixtures, and production operations - you'll own stations from requirements through deployment and long-term support. You won't just run tests; you'll build the systems that decide whether robot hardware ships.
Key Outcomes:- Own functional and end-of-line test stations for robot subassemblies (feet, head, battery, hands, arms, power boards) across their full lifecycle - requirements through deployment, maintenance, and corrective action.
- Ship operator-facing test apps with guided flows, clear pass/fail verdicts, robust error handling, and unit-level traceability.
- Improve station uptime, cycle time, test coverage, data quality, and deployment repeatability as production scales.
- Reduce escaped defects by reproducing and resolving failures across hardware, firmware, software, instruments, fixtures, and process - driving corrective action when stations or products fail.
- Connect results, serial numbers, board IDs, and logs into test-data systems so production data becomes actionable insight.
Key Competencies:- Strong software development in Python and C++ for test applications, instrument automation, and station infrastructure.
- Systems thinking across electronics, firmware, software, robotics hardware, fixtures, and production processes.
- Root-cause debugging grounded in data, logs, measurement, and controlled experimentation.
- Hands-on hardware ability: reading schematics, probing boards, debugging signals, and using bench instrumentation.
- Bias to action: makes decisions under production pressure, executes, and owns the result.
Minimum Requirements:- Background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++, with willingness to work in both.
- Ability to read schematics and debug electronics at the board or subsystem level.
- Exposure to embedded systems, microcontrollers, or protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, or EtherCAT.
- Hands-on experience with bench instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, programmable power supplies).
Preferred Skills:- Building production test stations, end-of-line testers, hardware-in-the-loop systems, or test infrastructure.
- Robotics, electromechanical systems, motor controllers, sensors, actuators, batteries, embedded Linux, or real-time systems.
- Deploying and maintaining software across multiple production PCs or factory stations.
- Test-data pipelines, traceability, dashboards, WATS, MES, SQL, Splunk, or similar.
- Linux, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Bazel, remote deployment, or automated station management.
- AI-assisted development tools for faster software development, debugging, documentation, or fixture bring-up.
What does a successful 1X Team Member look like:Team members at 1X who thrive here are builders. They move fast, own their work completely, and treat time like it's the one thing you can't get back - because it is. They say what they mean, finish what they start, and hold themselves to a standard before anyone has to ask. We push each other to be better, and we do it with honesty and respect.
Compensation Range:$148,000 - $181,000 + EquityBenefits:- 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
