At Tanvas, our mission is to make your interactions with touchscreens more interesting, more natural, and more engaging. We have developed a novel haptic touchscreen technology that not only tracks the fingertips, but controls what they feel: textures, edges, collisions, and even the illusion of shape on a featureless glass panel. Tanvas is based in downtown Chicago's easy-access west loop neighborhood. If you’re looking for a vibrant, growing company whose culture is one of open debate, continual learning, independent work and peer-to-peer accountability, we are the right choice for your next career move.

The Challenge: We promise to change human-computer interaction through rich tactile experiences on TanvasTouch hardware, and to achieve that, we must provide consistent quality of user experience for each and every touch interaction. As a hardware test development engineer, you will design and develop mechatronic test equipment and procedures to ensure that Tanvas hardware delivers on that promise with the highest quality.

The Job:

● Create and maintain a hardware test platform for validating touch sensing & haptic output

● Develop test automation procedures and maintain test data archival systems

● Analyze test data and identify key areas of failure or inefficiency

● Communicate with the core development team to target areas of development

● Contribute to a team atmosphere that values open, spirited debate, accountability, and a focus on company goals.

The Candidate:

● 3-5 years of experience building mechatronic systems [e.g. optical tracking systems, three axis-positioning systems, other data acquisition systems]

● Familiarity with data acquisition hardware and software

● Comfortable with prototyping and constructing mechanical test fixtures

● Experience with scripting languages - Python is preferred

● Experience with C/C++ programming

● Experience with dielectric materials is a plus

● Experience with data analysis and digital filtering is a plus

● Hardware failure analysis skills

● Creative problem solving skills

● Bachelor’s degree minimum

● Excellent communication skills

All candidates must have a valid U.S. work authorization.