Product Development Engineer

Product Development Engineer (Austin, TX)Hum was founded in 2019 to make rail transportation safer and smarter. Our products provide railroads, rail shippers, and railcar owners with the most advanced sensors for applications like predictive railcar maintenance, live railcar weights as accurate as a scale, and next generation fleet monitoring tools.Hum is entering a growth phase. We are opening manufacturing in Austin and building out the engineering team that takes new products from the lab onto railcars. We are looking for a Product Development Engineer to own new-product testing and support new-product introduction into the field.What you’ll be doingLab and field testing. Plan and run lab and field tests for new Hum hardware. Design and build test fixtures. Collect and analyze data. Own reliability and environmental test work that matters for rail — vibration, shock, thermal, and ingress — and run field trials with rail shippers and on railcars.New product introduction. Support NPI and design-for-manufacturing with the manufacturing and engineering teams in Austin. Close the loop between test results, design changes, and what we can build and ship. Keep clear documentation so the next engineer (and the factory) can pick up where you left off.Best-in-class engineering. Hum aims to be the premier engineering firm in the transportation telematics space. Our customers come to us to solve their challenges because our depth of expertise far surpasses anything our competitors can do. We don’t cut corners. We’re not building products for the Walmart bargain bin. We’re building best-in-class hardware and software that pushes the envelope on what’s possible. ResponsibilitiesPlan, execute, and document lab tests for new products and design revisionsDesign and fabricate or source test fixtures and instrumentation setupsRun reliability and environmental testing relevant to rail (vibration, shock, thermal cycling, ingress / sealing)Plan and support field trials with rail shippers and on railcars; collect, clean, and analyze field dataSupport new product introduction (NPI) and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) with manufacturing engineeringWrite clear test plans, reports, and engineering documentationWork closely with mechanical, embedded, and manufacturing teammates in AustinTravel periodically for field installs, trials, and customer sitesWhat we’re looking forBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent3+ years of relevant experienceLab experience preferred — graduate research, industry lab, or similarComfort with data analysis and writing up what the data saysWillingness to work on site in Austin, with some field travel both domestic and internationalAuthorized to work in the United States; Passport holderNice to haveRail, heavy industrial, mining, aerospace, or other harsh-environment product experienceSensors, IoT devices, or electromechanical systemsData acquisition systems; LabVIEW and/or Python for test automation and analysisSolidWorks or similar CAD for fixtures and simple mechanical designExperience taking a product through prototype into manufacturingThis position is located in Austin, TX. On site.Candidate must be a US citizen or authorized to work in the United States.