Engineer III, Test

What You’ll Do

• Lead risk-based V&V strategies for assigned subsystems and major features, translating requirements and product risks into effective verification approaches and partnering with R&D, Quality, Product, Manufacturing, and Automation teams to establish appropriate coverage and audit-ready evidence.
• Develop and improve hands-on test capabilities, including test methods, fixtures, and laboratory setups for hardware and integrated systems using instrumentation, sensors, actuators, motors, pneumatics, data acquisition, and software/control interfaces.
• Lead complex system and integration testing, including performance, stress, robustness, and safety-critical verification, while supporting characterization, life-cycle, and failure-focused reliability testing where appropriate.
• Turn test data into engineering insight by applying statistical methods to identify trends, variation, degradation, failure patterns, and product risk.
• Lead structured failure investigations, applying root-cause analysis to hardware and system issues and driving corrective actions and effective retest strategies.
• Create clear, traceable V&V evidence through test plans, protocols, reports, and traceability matrices, while communicating progress, technical risks, failures, and conclusions to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Influence product and test strategy by representing V&V in design reviews and risk-management activities and advocating for stronger design-for-testability.
• Share technical expertise by mentoring Test Engineers I/II and Test Technicians and helping strengthen hands-on problem-solving capabilities across the team.
• Advance V&V processes and automation by identifying practical opportunities to expand coverage, reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and create standardized, reusable test capabilities.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in verification, validation, reliability testing, hardware/system testing, or integration of complex products.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or anything similar.
• Strong system-level understanding of complex hardware and software-controlled products, with the ability to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, sensor/actuator, controls, and software interactions.
• Hands-on experience with laboratory test equipment, instrumentation, data acquisition, and designing, building, or modifying test fixtures and test setups for complex hardware.
• Demonstrated experience applying statistical methods to engineering test data and conducting structured root-cause analysis for hardware or system failures; strong technical documentation and cross-functional communication skills.
• Basic familiarity with AI-enabled tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) to support productivity, analysis, and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on mechatronics experience with motors, motor drives, pneumatics, solenoids, sensors, actuators, wiring, power supplies, embedded controls, or microcontroller-based systems.
• Experience designing test fixtures, adapters, brackets, or prototype hardware using CAD tools such as SolidWorks or comparable software, including basic GD&T and tolerance considerations.
• Experience developing or modifying test automation and data-acquisition solutions using LabVIEW, Python, Arduino/microcontrollers, PLCs, or comparable tools; familiarity with DAQ systems and instrument control.
• Experience with reliability methods such as life or accelerated testing and statistical tools or techniques such as DOE, capability analysis, regression, Weibull analysis, Minitab, or JMP.
• Medical-device or regulated-industry experience and familiarity with ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC 61010, IEC 62304, FMEA, or FTA.
• Training, certification, or demonstrated experience using generative AI tools to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Your First 90 Days

• Build a strong understanding of assigned products, system architecture, requirements, failure modes, and the V&V/test environment, with particular focus on hardware, reliability risks, and mechatronic subsystems.
• Establish working relationships with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Product, and Automation partners and understand how design, risk, and verification decisions are made.
• Contribute to an active verification or reliability test effort through hands-on testing, statistical analysis of results, and structured root-cause investigation of at least one complex issue.
• Begin owning a defined subsystem or test capability and identify a practical improvement to fixture design, instrumentation, data collection, automation, or reliability coverage.

Work Environment

Primarily office and laboratory-based in Warrendale, PA, with regular hands-on work using test equipment, instrumentation, hardware assemblies, fixtures, software tools, and medical automation systems. Limited travel may be required for cross-site collaboration or field support.