Systems Integration and Test Engineer (Senior to Staff Level)

About the role

Reliability is our most important feature! Autonomous systems bring together electronics hardware, sensing, and real-time AI software. The complexity of these systems, paired with their operation in uncontrolled real-world environments, makes the development, performance, reliability, and integration strategy that ties everything together a key element of delivering a great product. We are seeking an experienced and versatile Senior/Staff Systems Integration and Test Engineer to own definition, integration, verification, and failure analysis of state-of-the-art autonomous flying robots. Through requirements and architecture definition, field and lab data analysis, performance testing, rapid issue RCA, and cross-functional solution definition, you will ensure product integrity for the diverse range of applications across infrastructure, public safety, and defense that Skydio serves.

Responsibilities

• Own the definition of comprehensive and testable system requirements in close partnership with product managers, designers, and developers for new hardware products, ranging from product-level to component-level.
• Help establish the requirements-definition standards other programs adopt.
• Guarantee overall system performance and product integrity through system architecture definition, system to sub-system level design reviews, and component selection criteria.
• Define and implement cross-functional system behaviors and telemetry to optimize lifetime system performance, health, and field diagnostics.
• Perform bring-up and performance verification during new product introduction.
• Act as the first responder for early system failures, triage cross-functional issues between mechanical, electrical, embedded, autonomy, etc. and serve as the technical expert when issues span multiple programs or teams.
• Immerse yourself in massive datasets from flight telemetry and field analytics to learn from existing programs, perform risk assessments, inform prognostic and condition-based maintenance protocols, and implement future mitigations.
• Implement processes and tools to enable efficient product development and testing, including test infrastructure (SW and HW), system maturity/risk tracking, and accountability systems.
• Operate independently with limited direction on ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems, defining the problem statement as often as solving it.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on definition, design, analysis, testing, modeling, and delivery of highly reliable electro-mechanical systems in rapid development environments.
• Systems-engineering approach to problem solving, and a knack for rapidly identifying issues within mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Ability to work broadly across multiple domains, identify the critical path, and dive deep when necessary.
• Test design and execution for system bringup and performance verification, including mechatronic prototyping and fabrication skills for fixture development.
• Proficiency in design for reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks of critical electronics subsystems such as PCBAs, motors, batteries, cameras, compute modules, and sensors.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and AI tooling to analyze datasets for applications in specification definition