Senior Test Hardware Engineer

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, or related engineering discipline
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, integrating, or operating electrical test hardware, laboratory equipment, industrial automation systems, or similar engineering hardware
• Experience creating and maintaining electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, bills of materials, and assembly documentation
• Experience with EPLAN or similar electrical design tools
• Working knowledge of data acquisition, instrumentation, sensors, controls, wiring, power supplies, networking, and electrical system integration
• Hands-on experience with hardware checkout, commissioning, troubleshooting, and operation in a fast-paced environment
• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, integrating, or operating electrical test hardware, laboratory equipment, industrial automation systems, or similar engineering hardware
• Strong EPLAN experience, including project structure, device tagging, terminal blocks, wire numbering, panel layouts, reports, and drawing release workflows
• Experience designing modular or reusable test hardware platforms rather than one-off test equipment
• Experience with NI, Beckhoff, ifm, PLCs, real-time control systems, IO-Link devices, Ethernet/IP devices, EtherCAT devices, or other industrial automation hardware
• Experience designing low-voltage electrical systems, cable harnesses, grounding schemes, interlocks, and general E-stop or safety circuits
• Experience wiring, integrating, and troubleshooting power supplies, signal conditioning hardware, network switches, DAQ chassis, controllers, remote I/O, and industrial electrical components
• Mechanical design experience for test hardware, including enclosures, carts, racks, brackets, sheet metal, and serviceable assemblies
• Experience with Teamcenter, PLM systems, engineering release workflows, technician training, or configuration-controlled hardware documentation

What the job involves

• As a Senior Test Hardware Engineer at Impulse, you will design, build, deploy, and support the common electrical test hardware that powers our test infrastructure
• You will create standardized, reusable building blocks for test engineers, including rack-mounted DAQ and control units, mobile DAQ systems, test carts, rack-mounted pressure controllers, thermal chamber support hardware, power distribution assemblies, and electrical interface boxes
• In this role, you will collaborate closely with test operations, software automation engineers, IT, and other cross-functional teams to ensure rapid, reliable deployment of test assets
• Design, implement, and maintain common electrical test hardware platforms for DAQ, controls, instrumentation, power distribution, networking, and computer-integrated test assets
• Create and maintain electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, cable designs, bills of materials, assembly instructions, checkout procedures, and operating documentation
• Develop standardized hardware architectures that allow test engineers to quickly assemble safe, reliable, maintainable, and reusable test systems
• Participate in the full hardware lifecycle-from requirements and design through procurement, fabrication, integration, commissioning, deployment, maintenance, and improvement
• Work closely with software automation engineers during design, deployment, integration, checkout, and troubleshooting of standard test assets
• Coordinate with IT and the test automation engineers to define, image, configure, and maintain computers used in standard test assets
• Diagnose and resolve issues across electrical hardware, software interfaces, networking, and test infrastructure with resourceful, hands-on problem-solving

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
• Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse's success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
• Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than "balance". When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you're in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees