Hybrid Senior HIL Infra Automation Engineer

at Samsara

• Job title: Senior HIL Infra Automation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $126,140 - $212,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Linux
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Build an Automation Test Framework to improve customer experience in IoT at Samsara. A hybrid role requiring technical expertise in automation testing with a focus on physical operations.

Responsibilities

• 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 Samsara’s 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 Samsara’s 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package
• health benefits
• flexible working options
• employee-led remote working
• access to resources
• opportunities for career development