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Hardware Test Engineering Intern (Winter/Spring 2027)

Formlabs

Skills

Required

  • complex electromechanical systems
  • experimental setup
  • software implementation

Preferred

  • Linux systems
  • scripting
  • Python
  • component level validation test
  • root cause analysis
  • subsystem characterization
  • reliability/environmental testing

Join Formlabs, a team of innovators reinventing fabrication. As a Hardware Test Engineering Intern, you'll play a key role in running tests on 3D printers and reporting findings that will influence future features and settings. You'll work closely with design teams to identify product flaws and contribute to redesigns for more robust systems. This full-time internship runs from January to April 2027.

Familiarity with HALT and HASS testing

Responsibilities

  • Develop, execute, and manage system, subsystem, and component level validation test plans to ensure products meet design and reliability requirements.
  • Perform hands-on and data-driven root cause analysis to triage field failures and electromechanical systems, utilizing common problem-solving methodologies.
  • Design, build, and implement automated testing equipment for subsystem characterization and reliability/environmental testing.

Requirements

  • Are well versed with complex electromechanical systems and are passionate about understanding what it takes to make them work reliably
  • Have experience developing full system test plans and know how to execute them in fast-paced product development timelines
  • Can prototype and run your own tests, from experimental setup to hardware and software implementation
  • Have experience with testing a wide range of sensors, actuators, and mechanical components
  • Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Linux systems and scripting in various languages (Python preferred)