About the role:
Samsaras Automation team enables an exceptional customer experience by building reliable products identifying opportunities to improve customer experience and engaging cross-functionally to resolve key this role a successful candidate will help build our Automation Test Framework. This key role will enable teams to ship high-quality products ship FW updates to our customers faster and facilitate quality investigations.
This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days per week in our San Francisco CA office and 3 days working remotely. This position may also be Remote-US or Remote-CA with a 25% travel requirement.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Develop an end-to-end automation strategy to facilitate testing activities throughout Samsara product life cycles.
- Preside over technical direction for the team taking ownership for end-to-end delivery of solutions and mentoring junior team members.
- Identify opportunities to improve testing speed quality and strategy by working closely with Firmware Engineering and QE.
- Architect and design software frameworks to meet the reliability scalability and performance requirements of our products.
- Develop software to enable automation tools across Samsaras current product portfolio and future designs. Integrate hardware infrastructure for simulation hardware validation and product development.
- Ensure adoption of automation tools and frameworks by performing demonstrations tutorials and proof-of-concepts with firmware and quality engineers.
- Create simulation environments to enable testing and data collection of all platform functionalities.
- Create impact by deeply understanding the customer their pain points and recommending solutions.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- Five years of experience building automated test frameworks and software tools for product development and validation.
- Understanding of framework architectures and tradeoffs between efficiency scalability and performance.
- Software development experience.
- Participation in code reviews for Product/Feature code changes across all SWE departments.
- Experience creating and implementing hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
- Technical understanding of communication protocols (TCP UART and wireless).
- Ability to design and develop hardware infrastructure for test applications. (e.g. power measurement tools RF testing etc.).
- Experience with test instrumentation including the use of power supplies power analyzers battery simulators call boxes and GPS simulators.
- Experience working and developing within a Linux environment.
An ideal candidate also has:
- A deep customer obsession with the desire to make high-impact developments and improvements.
- Experience building and maintaining automation testing infrastructure from the ground up.
- Experience testing devices with wireless protocols including BLE WiFi LTE and GNSS.
- Experience testing devices with CAN interfaces (any protocol).
- Experience interfacing with embedded systems command line interfaces and AT commands.
- Experience defining test plans triaging test failures and reporting result data and relevant metrics.
- Experience with data analysis tools/packages such as SQL Pandas databricks etc.
- Python development experience.
Required Experience:
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