# Hardware Test Engineer

About Our Work We are neuroscientists who build ground-breaking technology for the spatial computing era. We stimulate nerves to create artificial tactile sensations, creating new, more meaningful connections to the user for notifications, 3D digital content, physical AI, health information, and beyond. Our first products will be mobile, wearable devices that stream haptic data from multiple digital sources to create meaningful sensations of touch. What You'll Be Doing The Hardware Test Engineer is responsible for supporting the development, validation, and optimization of wearable haptic technology products through comprehensive hardware testing and analysis. This role develops and executes hardware verification and validation protocols, performs system-level troubleshooting, and ensures product performance, reliability, and quality throughout the product development lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and execute hardware validation and verification test plans for wearable haptic devices and subsystems Perform functional, electrical, environmental, reliability, and system-level testing on prototypes and production hardware Diagnose hardware failures, identify roo

- **Id**: 760307
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/afference-hardware-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cleveland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-15T17:03:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T11:11:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 114
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5370
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Virtual & Augmented Reality

## Company

- **Id**: 669730
- **Name**: Afference
- **Domain**: afference.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/afference>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 110000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 110000

## Technologies

- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 114

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T18:21:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.279
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 114
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 110000
- **Is top pay**: no

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