Hardware Validation Engineer
Location: Liberty Lake, WA (On-site)
Contract: 6 months with potential extension
Bring Next-Generation Hardware Platforms to Life
We are seeking a Hardware Validation Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team focused on validating advanced hardware systems and ensuring product performance, reliability, and quality. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys hands-on lab work, solving complex technical challenges, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring innovative hardware solutions from prototype through production.
You’ll play a key role in designing and executing electrical validation strategies, debugging hardware platforms, analyzing performance data, and communicating findings to engineering teams. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including high-speed interfaces, advanced processors, FPGA platforms, and next-generation networking hardware.
What You’ll Do
- Create and execute electrical validation and design verification test plans based on product requirements
- Perform hands-on testing, debugging, and verification of complex electronic systems
- Validate high-speed interfaces including PCIe Gen5/Gen6, DDR5, and 400Gb Ethernet
- Perform signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) analysis
- Support board bring-up, prototype debugging, and hardware characterization
- Automate test setups and workflows using tools such as Python, MATLAB, and LabVIEW
- Collaborate with hardware design, layout, compliance, manufacturing, and engineering teams
- Analyze test results, document findings, and present insights to technical stakeholders
- Support reliability testing and qualification efforts for production hardware
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience in electrical validation, hardware testing, or hardware engineering
- Hands-on experience with lab equipment including:
- Oscilloscopes
- VNAs/SNAs
- Frequency counters
- DMMs
- BERTs
- Experience testing and debugging electronic systems
- Familiarity with high-speed protocols and FPGA-based hardware platforms
- Scripting experience with Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW
- Strong understanding of hardware validation methodologies and electrical design concepts
Nice-to-Have Experience
- Intel Xeon platform experience
- Ethernet switching and optical transceiver validation
- SI/PI simulation tools such as HyperLynx or Sigrity
- Knowledge of industry standards including IEEE, PCI-SIG, and JEDEC
Why This Opportunity?
- Work hands-on with advanced hardware technologies and next-generation platforms
- Be part of a collaborative engineering environment where your work directly impacts product quality and performance
- Gain exposure to complex electrical validation, high-speed interfaces, and cutting-edge hardware systems
- Opportunity to extend beyond the initial contract based on project needs
- Benefits available including medical coverage, PTO, and 401(k) matching
If you’re an engineer who enjoys being in the lab, digging into complex hardware problems, and turning test data into actionable improvements, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on innovative technology.
Pay: $104,000.00 - $114,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
