Senior Test Engineer

About the role

Wilder Systems builds robots that do precision work across aerospace manufacturing and MRO — drilling, fastening, sanding, and inspection — on systems deployed to factory floors and flight lines worldwide. As a Senior Test Engineer, you own the test strategy for a system: how we prove it works before it ships and keep it working in the field.

What You'll Do

• Test strategy & requirements — own the test strategy and requirements for a system, across its mechanical and electromechanical components.
• Test fixtures & instrumentation — design and build the test fixtures, rigs, and data-acquisition/instrumentation setups (load cells, strain gauges, sensors, DAQ) that measure performance and catch failures before they reach the field.
• Functional, structural & environmental testing — define and run functional, tolerance, durability/fatigue, and environmental tests, and troubleshoot mechanical-hardware failures to root cause with the mechanical, electrical, and hardware teams.
• Test documentation & reporting — own the test plans, procedures, and result reports for each release, in collaboration with the engineering teams.
• Technical leadership — set the quality bar, own test requirements across components, and mentor Test Engineer I and II through test design and review.

Required Experience

• A track record owning test strategy for a mechanical or electromechanical system or product end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on experience designing test fixtures, rigs, and instrumentation for physical systems.
• Deep experience with functional, structural/fatigue, tolerance, and environmental testing of complex hardware.
• Hands-on debugging of mechanical and electromechanical integration issues on real hardware.
• Solid fundamentals in measurement and data acquisition: instrumentation, sensors, calibration, and interpreting test data.
• A track record setting test requirements and mentoring other test engineers.

Preferred Experience

• Testing robotics, industrial automation, or other cyber-physical systems.
• Precision machinery, motion systems, or actuation.
• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test development.
• Metrology, GD&T, and dimensional inspection.
• Tolerance stack-up analysis and mechanical failure analysis.
• Comfort with scripting or test-automation tools for data acquisition and analysis (e.g., LabVIEW, MATLAB, or light Python) — a plus, not a requirement.
• Familiarity with the domains under test — motion, calibration, precision machining, and fastening.

Work Location

In person — Oklahoma City, OK.

Compensation

$100,000 – $120,000

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• PTO