Lab Technician

Lab Technician

The main function of a lab technician is to manage the prototype device farm to ensure they are ready to perform automated firmware and software tests. This position requires physical presence at Meta's office in New York City, NY 5 days a week, 8 hrs a day and day shift.

Responsibilities:

• Set up, change and maintain prototype devices.
• Monitor device health, and perform manual remediation as necessary when devices cannot be automatically remediated.
• Perform device configuration changes as requested by software engineers.
• Investigate testing failures which may be the result of hardware issues.
• Experience enabling and troubleshooting automated Continuous Integration - build and testing infrastructure such as Jenkins.
• Experience being in on-call rotations for monitoring CI Infra.
• Experience working in Linux Dev Environment.
• Knowledge of Firmware/Driver builds and build procedures.
• Good to have - Knowledge updating device firmware on test prototypes, triaging device debug logs.
• Experienced in Server Management in Lab / Data center environment from BMC consoles.
• Experience handling Test Prototypes, Blade servers, Server racks, rack HW and equipment safely and appropriately.
• Experience using IT Automation tools such as Chef, Ansible to setup and push changes to Lab Servers.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Ability to analyze data and accurately document and record results.
• Working knowledge of Linux. Python or bash programming.
• Top skills: Embedded Software, device drivers, OS (Windows, Linux(Fedora, CentOS)), RTOS, Chef, Python, Unix Shell scripting, VCS Git / Hg, VC Code / PyCharm, CI/CD, Jenkins.