Test Technician

Job Details:
Job Title: Test Technician (Vehicle Development)
Location: Foster City, CA 94404
Duration: 6 months
Pay range: $30-$35/hr.

Job Summary:
As a Test Technician , your role will be to maintain 's high standard of safety inside and outside the vehicle, maintain vehicle readiness, and complete software and hardware tests.
As a Test Technician, you will execute testing, review data, produce ZPTs, and log them. These ZPTs include known issues and new ones that must be logged as new tickets in JIRA and communicated to engineers. You must be able to work specific shifts as required by operational demands, including early mornings, evenings, overnights, and/or weekends.
At , you will assist and interact with multiple teams across the company, from computer vision, infrastructure, and sound design to strategy, vehicle engineering, and ride operations. We are looking for operators who are disciplined, team players, and believe in doing whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.
Working as a Test Technician to learn vehicle operations. You will have a front row seat to the operational complexities of realizing autonomous mobility and the chance to contribute to the future.

Responsibilities:

• Support vehicle operations
• Conduct basic software operation tasks
• Support missions through a wide variety of roles in and out of vehicles
• Assist with documentation and metrics
• Provide accurate written and oral feedback to engineering teams
• Assist with paperwork and documentation related to vehicle readiness
• Analyze vehicle logs and test data using in-house tools to trace failures for root cause analysis, documentation, and communication
• Support defect management process from recognition to resolution
• Execute mission prep procedures, which include, but are not limited to launching software across several devices per vehicle, verifying SW and HW configurations, deploying SW as appropriate, capturing requested data, and escalating issues as they arise.
• Execute testing and data collection to evolve processes and tools to support observed customer needs
• Uphold a safety-centric, inclusive, and open-communication culture

Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive mindset and resourcefulness
• Proficient in JIRA/Confluence (or Azure Dev Ops)
• Have at least 2 YOE running complex testing or vehicle testing
• Basic QA testing experience
• Possess a "get it done" attitude, safety-first mindset, and a sense of urgency to resolve problems and tasks.
• Must have the proven ability to problem solve and deliver on high-pressure situations.
• Proficiency with MS Office/Google Suites
• Works well in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to code in Python (or other language)
• Experience with issue reporting tools (e.g., Jira)
• Experience with communication busses (e.g., CAN, ethernet, etc.)
• Scripting experience with a high-level language (e.g., Python)