Facebook App Looking For Robot Validation Engineer, Bombyx at Remote Full Time

Our use of the internet for work, education, health care, and social connection continues to increase, with data consumption per person growing 20 percent to 30 percent annually. And despite this rapid growth, nearly half of the world is being left behind, either lacking adequate access to the internet or going completely unconnected. Bombyx is an aerial fiber deployment system that makes it faster and cheaper to deploy fiber, the most scalable communications technology that has over 1,000x the bandwidth of any wireless technology. Latin for silkworm, Bombyx is our attempt to make the single biggest drop in the cost of terrestrial fiber deployment by combining innovations in the fields of robotics and fiber-optic cable design to increase the amount of terrestrial fiber on land — without the expense of trenching to lay fiber underground.We are looking for an experienced test & validation engineer to join our team and take ownership of the design validation & reliability testing of the Bombyx robot.

Establish hardware subsystem testing and validation plans to maximize test coverage while minimizing test time

Develop reliability tests at the component, subsystem and system level

Work with third party test labs to perform industry standards based testing

Identify performance and reliability issues on the Bombyx technology in a self-driven manner, propose solutions and drive execution

Track test progress, document bugs, and fixes and produce regular progress reports

Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies

Create test setups, collect and analyze data to help debug technical issues

Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

Bachelor in CS, EE or equivalent experience

8+ years of test and validation experience

Experience creating validation plans for hardware products including developing test methodologies for new features and technologies

Experience debugging issues from logs and traces collected from live deployments

Hands-on experience in detailed testing of at least one electrical subsystem such as power, sensors or wireless etc. Experience learning quickly and extending to other areas as needed

Hands-on experience with test equipment such as logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers etc.

Familiarity with testing common electrical interfaces such as CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, USB etc.

Python/MATLAB/Labview/Ruby scripting experience for test automation and data processing/organization

Proven communication and interpersonal skills and experience communicating and driving issues to resolution across cross functional teams

Experience with ROS

Experience debugging issues from logs and traces collected from live deployments

Familiarity with the electrical distribution grid

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