Lab Technician

Request-ID:25686-1
Lab Technician
Location: New York City, NY. Onsite
Max Supplier Pay Rate: $50-55
JD:
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. A typical lab technician may work under the supervision of a production engineer or a lab manager.
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.
5 years of experience in Infrastructure Development and Management in Test Lab / Data center environment
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
Experienced 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
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:
1. Embedded Software, device drivers, OS (Windows, Linux(Fedora, CentOS)), RTOS
2. Chef, Python, Unix Shell scripting, VCS Git / Hg, VC Code / PyCharm
3. CI/CD, Jenkins
Additional Details:
Meta Infra Lab consists of many small teams with 10 to 12 members working on AR Headsets development and associate will be part of the team to support on the development infra side.
Would be good if candidate has a prior knowledge/experience in AR headsets.
As Meta is a product company, the product is under development. The working environment is very challenging, candidate should be very proactive to work and communicate to cross functional team.
Years of Experience: