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Trimble is looking for a passionate Hardware Validation Engineer to join our dynamic team in Dayton, Ohio, where you will own complex test setups, execute specialized environmental stress testing, and ensure our products thrive in the toughest real-world conditions!\nAbout Us: Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. We create technologies that connect the digital and physical worlds, helping our customers increase productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise-level solutions, our technology empowers professionals in construction, geospatial, government, transportation, and more.\nAbout Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)\nThe CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, see http://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.\nField Systems: Trimble Field Systems develops hardware, software and services that connect the site to the office for key industries around the world, including civil construction, surveying, mapping, automotive, marine, utilities and more. Leveraging decades of expertise and a commitment to driving innovative breakthroughs, we offer solutions that drive digital transformation across your field operations.\nWhat Makes This Role Great:\nIn this role, you will be at the heart of hardware reliability, taking complete ownership of state-of-the-art laboratory infrastructure, custom load boxes, and advanced test setups. You will play a pivotal role in validating next-generation technology, directly influencing product quality, and ensuring critical hardware meets the highest industry standards before reaching customers worldwide.\nKey Exciting Responsibilities:\nSpearhead laboratory validation activities by executing specialized vibration and environmental stress tests per industry standards.\nOwn the configuration of complex test setups, building custom harnesses, load boxes, and high-tech lab infrastructure. \nChampion data integrity by ensuring all test outcomes are accurately documented to support critical problem-solving and engineering conclusions. \nDrive workflow discipline within Jira, maintaining real-time visibility into the status of essential hardware validation cycles. \nCollaborate cross-functionally with validation leads to align lab throughput with equipment availability and product milestones.\nEssential Skills & Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent experience). \n3+ years of experience in a product validation or test laboratory environment. \nProven expertise in hands-on diagnosis and repair of electro-mechanical systems using DMMs, power supplies, and oscilloscopes. \nDemonstrated ability to execute complex DVP&Rs with high attention to detail and documentation accuracy.\nBonus Points For:\nExperience with environmental chambers or data acquisition systems such as Dewesoft or SOMAT.\nFamiliarity with industry standards such as MIL-STD-810, SAE J1939, or IEC 60529.\nFamiliarity with electronics assembly best practices (e.g., IPC-A-610) including soldering and rework skills.\nBackground in testing RF, GNSS, or sensing technologies and using Jira for Agile task tracking.\nLogistics:\nLocation: Dayton, Ohio (Onsite)\nTravel Requirement: 0-10%\nWhy You'll Love Working With Us:\nAt Trimble, we're not just a company that \"does good\"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.\nYou'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.\nCollaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a \"hidden gem.\" You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of \"visionary pragmatists\" who think boldly and build things that work.\nBe an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often \"self-authored,\" empowering proactive \"doers.\"\nValidation Engineer, Hardware Test Engineer, Environmental Testing, DVP&R, Vibration Testing, Oscilloscope, Electro-Mechanical Systems, Dewesoft, MIL-STD-810, Dayton Jobs\nCompensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.\nHiring Range\n$74,000.00-$101,800.00Pay Rate Type\nSalaryBonus Eligible?\nNoCommission Eligible?\nNoBenefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.\nHow to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.\nApplication Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nAt Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics athttps://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”\nOur mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. 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