Software Engineer for Hardware Testing, Everyday Robot Project

Company: X, the moonshot factory
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

X is Alphabet's moonshot factory. We are a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions, of people. Our goal: 10x impact on the world's most intractable problems, not just 10% improvement. We approach projects that have the aspiration and riskiness of research with the speed and ambition of a startup.We are the Everyday Robot Project at X, a moonshot that brings together people with varied skill sets and backgrounds to build a future where robots can be as helpful to people in the physical world as computers now are in the virtual world. We believe that the future of robotics and AI can unfold in a way that has lasting positive impact in our everyday lives and our wider communities. Our mission is to build learning robots that help people everyday and everywhere live better lives. Creating robots that can learn in different waysinvolves navigating some of the hardest challenges in robotics today. It's an ambiguous and iterative process, so we've worked hard to create a team environment where collaboration and creativity can flourish, and where people always feel comfortable bringing their unique perspectives and expertise to the table.We're looking for SWEs excited about robotics that have a passion for making robotics systems come to life. As a part of the hardware testing team, you will provide software and hardware solutions to drive our project testing in design, manufacturing, reliability, and operations. This role offers a chance to innovate and make an impact on a growing project, working with a diverse group of roboticists, designers, software engineers, and technicians.You will design and implement critical components of our hardware test SW infrastructure. You'll be writing code to add features to our automated test framework, drivers for our test hardware, interfaces to our robot system, and following good coding practice with unit and integration tests. Your work will span services running in production all the way down to tests directly interfacing with robot hardware. Your expertise in SW is balanced out with a breadth of cross functional experience or interest. You like your bytes to have an impact on objects in the real world - testing our motion and sensing systems as they interact with the world. Your work will drive quality and product excellence for our robots, generating insights that we learn from to improve the product and delight our users.ResponsibilitiesWrite and maintain testing libraries for a variety of HW systems with high stability and reliabilityProvide solutions for automation of data pipelines to generate data for our test ecosystemPlan, design, develop, validate and deploy hardware testing solutions through the full product life cycle (i.e. prototype development, characterization, calibration, and validation)Generate insights and recommendations from test data to improve product excellenceMinimum QualificationsDemonstrated industry experienced programmerExpert in Python, experienced developing on LinuxDemonstrated ability to plan and execute self-directed projectsTrack record of collaborative coding, SW design, and code reviewEffective collaborator, comfortable working on multidisciplinary teamsPreferred QualificationsExperience with automation for testing HW products, in a manufacturing environmentAbility to set up, manage, and run data pipelines in a production environmentProficient in C++About X, the moonshot factoryX creates radical new technologies to solve some of the world's biggest problems. We develop uncomfortably ambitious, potentially world-changing new ideas such as self-driving cars, balloon-powered Internet and smart contact lenses. We're a team of makers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and scientists with deep technical expertise who love the challenge of the seemingly impossible. X was formerly known as Google[x] and is part of Alphabet.

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