Full-Time
Hardware Validation Engineer
Posted on 9/5/2025
Mashgin
51-200 employees
AI-powered touchless self-checkout kiosks
Compensation Overview
$145k - $165k/yr
San Jose, CA, USA
Hybrid
On-site requirement: at least 2 days per week in San Jose, CA.
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- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in hardware validation, test engineering, or product qualification
- Strong ability to design, execute, and document validation plans
- Skilled in reading and interpreting datasheets, schematics, and specifications
- Proficiency with test equipment and automation tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power/load testers, Python or similar scripting)
- Work with partners to ensure complete testing coverage and compliance
- Experience collaborating with external vendors and design partners on validation and test work
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Developing and executing validation test plans covering functionality, stress testing, and reliability
- Reviewing and interpreting datasheets, schematics, and system-level designs to define validation coverage
- Collaborating with internal engineers and external vendors/design partners to drive design reviews and testing
- Conducting debug and root-cause analysis, providing recommendations for corrective actions
- Selecting and advocating for a robust testing and validation platform that ensure test progress, coverage, and data is accessible by other teams for traceability and planning
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive validation documentation, including protocols, reports, and quality specifications
- Establishing repeatable processes to ensure high reliability across current and future hardware designs
- Experience in kiosk hardware, industrial hardware, or other high-reliability systems
- Familiarity with camera modules, USB hub boards, or power delivery systems
- Familiarity with environmental, thermal, or lifecycle stress testing
- Mandarin Chinese proficiency is a plus for communicating with some manufacturing partners
Mashgin provides touchless self-checkout systems that use AI and computer vision to speed up purchases in high-traffic places like stadiums, airports, and event venues. The technology works by placing items on a checkout base, where AI identifies and tallys multiple items at once, delivering checkout in about 27 seconds. The company differentiates itself by focusing on fast, multi-item recognition for high-volume environments and offering hardware (kiosks) on sale or lease plus service contracts. Its goal is to reduce lines, improve customer experience, and increase operating efficiency for clients with large transaction volumes.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$70.8M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Verifone Commander integration accesses 40% of U.S. convenience stores for rapid expansion.
- PDI Technologies integration enables one-week deployment to 200,000+ PDI-using stores.
- Peter Atkin as CRO and Eric Meyerson as VP Marketing drive enterprise sales scaling.
What critics are saying
- Grabango undercuts kiosks by integrating with existing infrastructure, capturing PDI c-store deals.
- Standard Cognition's agentic AI launches in 100 stores January 2025, stealing venue contracts.
- Keyo biometrics partnership triggers Illinois BIPA lawsuits, halting LAX and Coors Field deployments.
What makes Mashgin unique
- Mashgin kiosks use proprietary 3D cameras and AI for 99.9% accurate item recognition without barcodes.
- Transactions complete in under 10 seconds, 400% faster than cashiers, boosting venue revenue 25-400%.
- Deployed at over 2,700 U.S. locations including stadiums, airports, and convenience stores.
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Benefits
Competitive healthcare, dental & vision options
Competitive equity
Hybrid remote environment
Office snacks
Flexible PTO
401k
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -3%1 year growth
↑ 1%2 year growth
↑ 0%Mashgin welcomes Peter Atkin as CRO and Eric Meyerson as VP marketing to help build the future of checkout.
Human interaction used to be essential for finalizing transactions at traditional point-of-sale locations. However, there has been a shift, with unattended payments technologies increasingly becoming indispensable in today’s fast-paced retail environment. Ellie Smith, global head of digital acceptance at Discover® Global Network, pointed to a confluence of factors propelling this trend in an interview with PYMNTS
Touchless self-checkout company Mashgin has launched a partnership with payments solution provider Verifone. The two companies’ integration, announced Monday (May 20), will let Mashgin deploy its computer vision self-checkout system via Verifone’s Commander solution, found at 40% of convenience stores in the country. According to a news release, the integration lets retailers offer faster checkouts while running payments, fueling operations and loyalty programs through one central Commander Site Controller
"Our goal is to enable as many retailers as possible to cut lines by adding a convenient self-checkout option. The integration with Verifone's Commander system will make Mashgin an attractive option for tens of thousands of convenience retailers." – Jack Hogan, SVP of Partnerships at Mashgin
Baseball season officially kicks off March 28, and fans are set to experience a shift in their stadium visits across the country. One such change is taking place at Citizens Bank Park, home to the Philadelphia Phillies, where facial recognition ticketing will be introduced at all main entrance gates on opening day. The implementation of this biometric ticketing system is part of the MLB’s broader initiative to introduce its Go-Ahead Entry facial authentication technology across all stadiums league-wide during the 2024 season. Other teams, including the Houston Astros, are planning to deploy the system starting on opening day, with more expected to adopt it throughout the season