What are the responsibilities and job description for the Failure Analysis Engineer position at Skydio?
About the role:
Skydio is seeking an enthusiastic Failure Analysis Engineer to help ensure that units produced are the of the highest quality. This role requires a robust technical skillset, combined with strong soft skills and a keen interest in aerospace hardware.
How you'll make an impact:
- Be a technical point of contact representing the Manufacturing Quality Team
- Delve into technical issues across hardware/software/systems
- Work cross functionally with EE, Systems, FW, RF, Supplier Quality Engineers to distill complex issues into manageable portions
- Ultimately surfacing root causes, aggregating trends/patterns within manufacturing, providing clear and actionable documentation while suggesting potential corrective actions
- Be involved in EFFA (field) efforts; summarize and prioritize field issues that may be EE/system related, discover root cause and feed learning into to current manufacturing environment as well as championing improvements on the next program
- Continue to build out failure analysis capabilities (lab equipment, SOPs, etc)
What makes you a good fit:
- Technical expertise in the EE/systems/FW space (such as robotics system design, FW/SW languages, test script writing, board schematics, signal tracing, etc)
- Intense curiosity to figure out what's wrong
- Hands-on
- A passion for consumer hardware and flying
- Solid soft skills to work cohesively with a variety of technical experts
- Experienced in using common FA lab tools (oscilloscope, microvu, microscopes, volt meters, signal analyzer, etc)
- Able to read and understand electrical schematics
- Bachelor's degree or Master’s in EE/Systems Engineer/Mechatronics
- AS9100 / ISO9001 experience (nice to have)
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