Hardware and Test Automation Engineer

oneNav

Sunnyvale, CA, US
  • Job Type: Full-Time
  • Function: Engineering QA
  • Post Date: 06/10/2025
  • Website: onenav.ai
  • Company Address: 1290 Hammerwood Ave. Suite D, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089
  • Salary Range: $50,000 - $150,000

About oneNav

oneNav provides the pureL5 GNSS receiver for smartphones, wearables and trackers. The oneNav team comprises 45 GNSS experts from Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, SnapTrack, SiRF, Trimble and eRide. oneNav team members invented GPS for cell phones for the first time in 2001.

Job Description

Company

oneNav, based in Silicon Valley, is developing a next-generation, independent L5 mobile GNSS receiver for location-based services for consumer mobile devices such as smartphones and wearables devices.


Job Description


We are looking for a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to help support R&D and automation of tests for custom GNSS receivers built by oneNav. The HW team delivers portable prototype systems for oneNav Field Testing and Customer evaluations worldwide. You’ll face exciting challenges and provide high-impact solutions in a small group of highly experienced RF, Digital HW, Software QA, and Customer Deployment and Field Test teams.


Responsibilities

  • Perform various tests of receiver hardware (both RF and digital)
  • Writing automation software (scripts) using test hardware APIs
  • Configuration and operation of test hardware
  • Debugging of various issues of receiver hardware


Minimum qualifications

  • BS in EE, CS, or equivalent
  • 3+ years of RF or Digital Hardware R&D Engineer experience
  • 3+ years of Python programming language
  • Solid experience with lab equipment, oscilloscopes, function generators, waveform generators, and power supplies
  • Good analytical ability and problem-solving skills and Customer-orientation
  • Ability to think independently while also being a solid team player.


Preferred qualifications

  • Solid knowledge of Python or C/C++ programming
  • Knowledge of Xilinx FPGA development tools (XSDK, Vitis)
  • Board-level assembly experience in RF/microwave and high-speed mixed signal silicon
  • R&D or prototype development of PCBs for high-volume mobile wireless, wearables, and IoT applications
  • Experience with GNSS receiver technology
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills


Benefits/Perks

  • Amazing Medical, Dental and Vision plans
  • Stock Options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401K
  • Life insurance
  • Twenty dollars a day for lunch when working onsite
  • Commuter benefits
  • Pet Insurance


About the Team


oneNav’s team comprises top GNSS experts from Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, SnapTrack, SiRF and Trimble, with decades of GNSS and mobile industry experience. Our team has extensive experience in GNSS system architecture, multipath, signal processing, ASIC design and AI/machine learning, and has collectively filed over 200 career GNSS patents. We are backed by Norwest Ventures, GSR Ventures and Google Ventures. You can find more information at  www.onenav.ai.

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