Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer

We are looking for a passionate Senior Systems Integration and Test Engineer to join our team. In this role, your primary responsibility will be designing, implementing, and executing integration and testing strategies for a complex manufacturing machine. We’re looking for someone with experience in HW/SW system integration and testing who is excited about the risks and rewards of joining an early-stage startup.

About us

unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company, with a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing.

Included in Time's Best Inventions & Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, unspun aims to rapidly transition the trillion-dollar apparel world into one that is more intentional, inclusive, and efficient by focusing on the overlap between sustainability and profitability.

We’ve developed a proprietary and patent-pending technology at the crossroads of 3D printing and automated textile manufacturing. By skipping the flat 2D fabric stage, we can additively build custom apparel products from the ground up- straight from yarn to final product. If additive manufacturing, industrial automation, and synchronized systems of hundreds of sensors & actuators gets you excited, we’d love to talk!

About You

As the first Systems I&T engineer on unspun’s hardware team, you will play a critical role in diligently and thoroughly completing the verification and validation process of Vega™, our revolutionary new textile manufacturing process. You will work with hardware & textile engineers, technicians, and our product development team to achieve company goals via requirements definition, integration planning, and acceptance testing.

What You’ll Do

• Define and manage a path to full system integration by developing tests to inform requirements discovery, establishing success criteria, leading design validation, and regularly communicating system requirements updates
• Define the integration plan of subsystems and ensure system performance meets the required specifications and standards
• Own testing schedules and lead on-machine verification and validation testing with a team of engineers and technicians
• Align cross-functional teams toward the successful realization of integration & testing milestones
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, review, and execute test plans for prototype builds
• Create technical reports detailing test results, findings, and recommendations
• Analyze issues and provide support in the definition, prioritization, and testing for proposed solutions
• Communicate identified improvements and new capabilities to the Vega™ Design team
• Engage with project stakeholders to ensure all integration and testing requirements are met and aligned with overall project goals
• Identify potential risks and issues early in the integration and testing process and develop mitigation strategies
• Work onsite Mon - Fri from our Emeryville microfactory

Requirements

Ideal Qualities

• 5+ years of industry experience in an integration and testing engineering role on complex hardware-software systems

• Experience working with advanced robotics systems
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates
• High sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Excited to work in close collaboration with the unspun product development team to meet our external contract deliverables

Bonus Points

• Excited about weaving, carbon reduction, deep tech, or all of the above!
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience within cross-functional engineering projects
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards for capital equipment and machinery, including safety, environmental, and industry-specific compliance requirements

We don't expect you to have all of the listed qualities and are looking for someone who hopes to learn those areas where they don't have as much experience. So if you don't meet all of the requirements listed above but can make up for it with a voracious passion for learning how to do so, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Our philosophy

We won’t roll our eyes if your socks don’t match. We get it. But then, if you spend those extra few minutes in the morning matching your socks and shirt, we get that too. Our workspaces are sometimes spotless and sometimes chaotic, and we celebrate messy exploration. We work through complex problems but generate simple and elegant solutions. We strive to look at things differently, and never do anything solely because “that’s the way it’s always been done.”

We’re a team of designers and engineers, industry-veterans and serial entrepreneurs, artists and developers. We’re aspiring chess masters and climbers, bakers and photographers. Originally spun out of Stanford and the University of Colorado, we now call the Bay Area home, with strong ties to Hong Kong. We are looking for teammates who share our desire to work on ambitious problems and leave the world better than we found it.

unspun is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to being a diverse team that reflects a broad range of background, thought, and experience. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, status as protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, and people from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Benefits

The salary range for this role is $139,000 - $153,000 USD, annually, plus 0.06% - 0.08% equity.

Benefits include:

• self-regulated vacation policy
• comprehensive (gold & platinum) health/dental/vision insurance (or equivalent cash bonus if already insured)
• company sponsored 401k
• monthly gym membership or relevant online education grant of up to $150/month
• pre-tax commuter benefits
• incentive stock options