Hardware Test Engineer Intern

A Test Engineering Intern on the Reliability Testing team at Lunar Energy will be responsible for ensuring the validation of the product throughout the entire lifecycle of our revolutionary home energy products. We are looking for people who are passionate about a more sustainable and energy independent future and want to make that vision a reality. Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy, making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We are a fast-growing, global company building the world's best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. ## On a given day at Lunar, you'll likely: - Perform and execute various types of testing as part of our hardware validation process. - Design and build test stands for PCBA testing. - Specify test stand equipment and instrumentation. - Work with technicians for designing and building test stands. - Write Python scripts to enable test automation and process data coming out of the test. - Thoughtful use of AI assistants and coding tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) in your engineering workflow, including good judgment about when outputs need verification, awareness of confidentiality practices and a strong vision on how to structure your test code. - For test failures and field failures, aid failure analysis investigations and countermeasure validation with design team, reliability team and failure analysis lab. - Collaborate with electrical, mechanical and firmware engineers across the company to develop thoughtful test methodologies. - Analyze test data, write test reports and help extract important takeaways from the data. - Contribute to various test infrastructure improvement efforts (ranging from contributing new features and functions to the codebase, creating custom test equipment, etc.). ## Desired Skills - Bachelor's degree in engineering in progress. Mechatronics or electrical engineering background preferred. - Highly curious with hands-on project experience. - Working knowledge of programming, Python and object oriented programming experience preferred. - Working knowledge of electronics/circuit analysis required; working knowledge of statics/mechanics of materials and heat and mass transfer is a plus. - Experience with test equipment like power supplies, multimeters, DAQs, various sensors/instrumentation, etc. preferred. - Familiarity with testing embedded/IoT systems or wireless communications (Wifi/mesh networks/BLE) is a plus. - Basic mechanical design experience/familiarity with CAD software and/or designing PCBAs is a plus.