Hardware Testing Engineer, Fuchsia

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with Linux and software scripting languages.

• 1 year of experience working in hardware development labs and supporting hardware bring-up.

• Experience with hardware evaluation methodologies, including lab measurements, performance monitoring, test automation, and data analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using Linux or other Unix operating systems (e.g., Ubuntu, Debian) and shell scripts.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, involving wlan, NICs, switches, routers, fiber and copper cable interconnect standards, and USB.
• Understanding of computer systems (e.g., physical, functional, logical, mechanical, electrical, software, thermal, etc.).
• Ability to read and write Python and Bash.
• Ability to root-cause a failure in a complex testbed.
• Ability to read and understand technical drawings (i.e., network diagrams, datasheets, written work instructions).

About the job

Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.

With your technical expertise, you create test plans for highly complex platforms (e.g., validating the interaction of multiple pieces of equipment at the networking and subsystem levels), and using your deep knowledge of component design characteristics, you diagnose highly complex hardware or software issues.

We shipped Fuchsia to Google smart displays, now it's time to expand to additional smart devices and other form factors.

Fuchsia is building an OS. We need to exercise it against a wide range of available hardware, both internal and external. As a Hardware Testing Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain complex testbeds for Fuchsia's continuous test infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Help design and build complex system-level testbeds and maintain lab space, tools, and infrastructure.
• Work with teams to develop software and hardware systems, as well as methodologies and tools to support team members.
• Anticipate and resolve problems by applying knowledge and skills and escalating design, manufacturing, and product test issues to other people within the organization when appropriate.
• Generate implementation plans and provide technical expertise and guidance during deployment activities.
• Create test plans and develop tests for hardware subsystem testing.

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