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Senior Test Engineering Technician
| Company | Skydio |
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| Location | San Mateo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $110000 – $156000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 2-5 Years of professional experience working as a Test Technician
- Acute attention to detail – able to identify subtle degradations in mechanical feel or system performance that may be precursors to test failures
- Proactive – you anticipate needs, identify areas to improve efficiency and work towards these goals without explicit prompting to support the team
- Curious – you’re driven to understand the nuances of complex systems and are always interested in learning new skills
- Hands-on and fabrication technical skills and experience with wire harnesses, 80/20, light machining and/or woodworking (or a knack and an eagerness to learn)
- Creative problem-solving – you’re able to think outside the box to develop innovative solutions for test challenges, fixture designs, and automation improvements
- Solid computer skills including documentation, web research, and executing linux commands and python scripts
- Excellent written & verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Support test setup, instrumentation, execution, checkpoint and tear down inspections for a variety of performance, reliability and environmental stress tests for our flying and ground based hardware using a broad range of lab equipment
- Execute hands-on mechanical repairs of infrastructure and DUT’s
- Work closely with test engineers to understand the item under test, execution procedures, data requirements, and potential failure modes of each test to ensure the earliest possible detection of issues
- Develop and fabricate custom test fixtures and infrastructure to add capability, improve repeatability, and save time through automation
- Organize and own logistics of transportation tests
- Document and escalate test failures quickly; collaborate with reliability, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams to perform failure analysis and ensure the product continuously improves through all stages of development
- Optimize execution efficiency with preventative maintenance on equipment and helping to ensure a high standard for safety and organization within the lab
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
