R&D Test Engineer, Instrumentation

Role Description

We are seeking a curious, hands-on R&D Test Engineer with an instrumentation focus to join our Physical R&D team. You will own the test infrastructure our scientists depend on: designing and building fixtures, instrumenting test systems, developing data collection methods, running experiments, and turning one-off prototype setups into repeatable systems.

Our scientists define what to investigate, and together you collaboratively define how; examples include fixturing, sensor selection, data acquisition, procedure, and controls. You will build the systems that make those tests possible, run the experiments, and ensure they produce trustworthy data. The work spans a wide range of environments, including our lab, warehouse, outdoor microgrid, and future pilot-scale settings, each requiring solutions tailored to the environment and test goals.

You will also be the person who makes test methods durable. When an experiment or test grows past an exploratory stage, you mature it through designing fixtureand sending updates, writing SOPs, or training others.

This role sits on the R&D team, which is responsible for the sensing and measurement performance of our devices rather than their design or implementation. It is not a reliability, qualification, or manufacturing test role. You will not own device design, though what you measure will regularly inform it.

• 1. Designing solely for ideal laboratory conditions without accounting for thermal swings, moisture, and power loss
• 2. Showing impatience or lack of appreciation for utility-grade compliance and safety regulations
• 3. Lack of end-to-end debugging experience spanning firmware, enclosure, and cloud backend

I build resilient, low-power edge systems designed to survive extreme environments and deliver zero-failure telemetry to critical infrastructure operators.