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Senior Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer

Senior Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer

CompanySkydio
LocationSan Mateo, CA, USA
Salary$170000 – $220000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 6+ years experience hands-on development, testing and delivery of highly reliable complex systems
  • Extensive knowledge of the physics of failure and integration risks of one or more critical electronics subsystems such as batteries, cameras, compute systems, or electronic sensors
  • Proficient in Python and SQL to adeptly manage and analyze large datasets
  • A systems-engineering approach to problem solving
  • Strong desire to drive failure analyses to true root cause
  • Enthusiastic tendencies toward diving into hands on testing, characterization and failure analysis
  • A passion for communicating the nuances of hardware reliability to internal and external cross functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Immerse yourself in massive data sets from developmental flight telemetry and robust customer analytics to identify problems before they occur, perform risk assessments, develop prognostic and conditioned based maintenance protocols, and anchor our reliability test specs firmly data
  • Work with product development, embedded software, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to define and execute comprehensive test strategies from early prototyping stages through volume production
  • Collaborate with mechanical, electrical and software engineering teams to perform failure analysis, identify root cause, implement corrective actions, resolve system issues, and help develop process/design mitigations
  • Contribute to design reviews and provide key design for reliability inputs to mitigate risks from first prototypes to first customer shipment and beyond
  • A keen interest in contributing across multiple domains to make Skydio products the default choice for users in challenging environments

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.