# Systems Integration and Test Engineer (Mid to Senior Level)
**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Salary:** $128K-$213K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Systems Engineering, Electromechanical Systems, Pcbas, Test Automation, Telemetry Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Mechatronics, Sensors, Motors, Batteries, Compute Modules, Field Diagnostics, Risk Assessment
**Posted:** 2025-12-16
> Owns definition, integration, verification, and failure analysis of autonomous drone systems. Drives requirements, architecture, testing, data analysis, and cross-functional issue resolution to ensure product reliability for infrastructure, public safety, and defense applications. Requires 3+ years in electro-mechanical systems.
## Job Description
## How you will make an impact
- Define comprehensive and testable system requirements in close partnership with product managers, designers, and developers for new hardware products, ranging from product-level to component-level
- Guarantee overall system performance and product integrity through system architecture definition, system to sub-system level design reviews, and component selection criteria
- Define and implement cross-functional system behaviors and telemetry to optimize lifetime system performance, health, and field diagnostics
- Perform initial bring-up and performance verification during new product introduction
- Act as the first responder for early system failures, triage cross-functional issues between mechanical, electrical, embedded, autonomy, etc. and creatively drive issue resolution and verification
- Immerse yourself in massive datasets from flight telemetry and field analytics to learn from existing programs, perform risk assessments, inform prognostic and condition-based maintenance protocols, and implement future mitigations
- Implement processes and tools to enable efficient product development and testing, including test infrastructure (SW and HW), system maturity/risk tracking, and accountability systems

## Useful skills and experience
- 3+ years experience in hands-on definition, design, analysis, testing, modeling, and delivery of highly reliable electro-mechanical systems in rapid development environments
- Systems-engineering approach to problem solving, and a knack for rapidly identifying issues within mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Ability to work broadly across multiple domains, identify the critical path, and dive deep when necessary
- Test design and execution for system bringup and performance verification, including mechatronic prototyping and fabrication skills for fixture development
- Knowledge of design for reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks of critical electronics subsystems such as PCBAs, motors, batteries, cameras, compute modules, or sensors
- Experience in Python and/or SQL to analyze datasets for applications in specification definition, risk assessments, and reliability data analysis, and write scripts to execute commands on electro-mechanical systems
- Passion for communicating the nuances of hardware/systems reliability to internal and external cross functional teams to help drive organizational priorities
- A keen eye for identifying and prioritizing risks, and taking extreme ownership in finding and implementing creative resolutions

## Compensation
Annual base salary range: $127,500 - $212,500. Includes equity, comprehensive benefits, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, 401K.
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