Senior Electrical Test Engineer

Most days mix test strategy, lab leadership, and mentorship — leading test plan development, owning fixture design choices, mentoring junior test engineers, supporting design and production teams on test data, and partnering on lab capability investments. You're often working at hardware companies — semiconductor, networking, defense, automotive — and the test phase (design verification, qualification, production) shapes daily work.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the leadership of automation and analysis. Test automation infrastructure, data analysis pipelines, and fixture electromechanical design all carry significant complexity, and debugging unexplained failures can become career-defining. Mentoring junior engineers and maintaining lab capability are core senior responsibilities.

People who tend to thrive here are methodical, deeply experienced with both hardware and code, comfortable mentoring, and quietly proud of catching what design missed. If you want pure design, test lives in characterization. If you like leading the patient craft of test systems and finding what designs hide, the role offers durable demand and a clear ladder toward principal test engineer or test architect.