Hardware Validation Engineer

Department: Clean Cooking

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: India

Reporting To: Director of Hardware

Description

What you will be expected to do:

• Test Plan Development: Create detailed test plans linking requirements to performance targets, covering reliability, safety, and environmental needs.
• Test Procedures: Write clear, repeatable, version‑controlled procedures aligned with current design specs.
• Laboratory Testing: Execute tests, operate equipment, record results, and flag anomalies promptly.
• Fixture Support: Collaborate with engineering teams to design and validate test fixtures for accuracy and repeatability.
• Results Analysis: Analyze outcomes, identify failure modes, and report findings with clear pass/fail decisions and recommendations.

• Requirements Traceability: Maintain strong linkage between requirements, test methods, results, and design revisions.
• Document Control: Own version control for test plans, procedures, and reports, ensuring compliance with configuration standards.
• Design Change Validation: Assess the impact of revisions and run targeted validation to confirm compliance.
• Record Management: Keep complete, auditable validation records to support reviews, compliance, and knowledge transfer.

• Team Collaboration: Work with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to align validation with development milestones and production readiness.
• Partner Oversight (Satruc): Review and monitor Satruc’s Design Validation Testing programs, ensuring compliance with Sun King standards.
• Test Readiness Reviews: Confirm fixtures, procedures, calibration, and test articles are in order before campaigns.
• Failure Investigation: Lead structured root‑cause analysis, document findings, and verify corrective actions.
• Production Readiness: Provide validation data and sign‑off support for readiness gates, ensuring requirements are met and open items tracked.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5+ years in hardware validation, test engineering, or product verification for products combining mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical components.
• Familiarity with both functional and environmental testing.
• Proven ability to write test plans and procedures directly from requirements.
• Experience designing or supporting test fixtures, jigs, or automated test equipment.
• Track record of working cross‑functionally with design and manufacturing teams to communicate validation findings.
• Exposure to partner or supplier oversight in a technical context (reviewing test execution, accepting results, or managing test partners) is a plus.

• Strong documentation skills: structured, version‑controlled, and traceable to requirements.
• Working knowledge of requirements traceability and configuration management.
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, BOMs, assembly schematics, and basic PCB schematics.
• Experience with validation methods: performance, environmental stress (temperature, humidity, vibration), and reliability/life testing.
• Familiarity with failure evaluation tools such as 5‑Why, Fishbone, or FMEA.
• Competence in data analysis using Excel or equivalent; CAD tools, data acquisition systems, or Python/SQL are a plus.
• Familiarity with AI‑supported tools for documentation, test data evaluation, or test script development is a plus.

• Rigorous approach to documentation; produces test plans and records to a high standard with minimal review.
• Detail‑oriented and disciplined in test execution, with sound judgment on when to escalate deviations.
• Skilled at translating technical findings into clear insights for non‑specialist audiences.
• Self‑directed and organized, able to manage multiple test programs and set priorities independently.
• Strong cross‑functional communication skills, effective at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and quality.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.