Senior Automation Engineer, Samsara
$113.9-167.5k
IoT business digitising the world of physical operations
Job no longer available
IoT business digitising the world of physical operations
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$113.9-167.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the operations that power our economy.
Role
Who you are
- Five years experience testing embedded systems, IoT and connected devices
- Scripting and Python programming skills
- Experience creating and implementing test cases for wireless protocols
- Use of test frameworks including pytest, buildkite, jenkins, etc
- Experience with test instrumentation including the use of power supplies, power analyzers, battery simulators, call boxes, and GPS simulators
Desirable
- At least 5 years experience working as a QA engineer with emphasis on developing test cases and holistic test frameworks (inclusive of hardware and software)
- Experience building and maintaining automation testing infrastructure from the ground up
- Experience testing devices with wireless protocols including BLE, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS
- 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
What the job involves
- Build and maintain test infrastructure (SW, FW, and HW) to perform automated testing across Samsara’s current product portfolio and future designs
- Use your passion for testing software, firmware, and hardware to stress our embedded systems and identify failure points to improve the design, reliability and performance of our products
- Build the framework for testing our hardware/firmware platforms by working closely with the development team (FW, EE, ME, NPI) to define product test plans and ensure we have complete test coverage
- Test and verify features of the test infrastructure and manage the cross-organizational deployment and training
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Samsara supports the transportation, logistics, construction, food production, energy and manufacturing industries with its internet-connected sensor systems. This helps businesses collect data and derive insights to improve the efficiency of physical operations.
Samsara brings transformational technologies to solve the problems of operational businesses, a segment of the economy that it says has long been underserved by the technology industry.
Thousands of companies now rely on Samsara, with clients including truck-rental provider Penske and restaurant-supplier Sysco. Samsara are now a public-company following an $805m IPO, and are now focused on product development. Ultimately, it wants to become the IoT, AI and data-analysis layer across a company’s entire spectrum of physical assets and operations.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
34% female employees
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I've been at Samsara for 2+ years which has given me the opportunity to explore a career in 3 different teams and fields which I'm forever grateful..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2020
$400m
SERIES F
Sep 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $930m
Company values
- Focus on customer success
- Build for the long term
- Adopt a growth mindset
- Be inclusive
- Win as a team
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Sanjit Biswas
(CEO)Previously CEO of Meraki and VP at Cisco. Has a PhD from MIT.
John Bicket
(CTO)Previously CTO of Meraki and VP of Engineering at Cisco.
Diversity & Inclusion at Samsara
Adebola Morton (Sr. Director, DE&I)
- We set goals and develop strategies to diversify our workforce by being intentional about addressing unconscious bias and ensuring fairness in our sourcing and hiring practices
- We create training and learning opportunities centred on enabling growth and ensuring all employees feel valued, respected, and supported
- We invest in mechanisms to ensure we are on target and transparent about building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Samsara
- Read more here: https://www.samsara.com/uk/company/diversity/
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