Magnit Global is a leading, global professional services and technology company and a certified “Great Place to Work”. We have been a leader in contingent workforce management since 1991 and work with leading Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations across numerous verticals including consumer electronics, research and development, pharmaceuticals, health services, and many more! 

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This contract opportunity is with Arrow Electronics. 

About The Role:
The Engineering Associate will work with product development, embedded software, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to define and execute comprehensive test strategies beginning in early prototyping stages. Will be working onsite completely in San Mateo, CA

What Will You Do:

• We are seeking a driven and versatile engineer to help drive safety and reliability initiatives, develop and execute test plans that enable rapid design iteration and robust product validation for state-of-the-art autonomous flying machines servicing a broad range of enterprise, public safety, and defense applications.
• Work with product development, embedded software, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to define and execute comprehensive test strategies beginning in early prototyping stages through volume production and product sustaining, enabling earliest possible discovery of failure modes for complex electro-mechanical autonomous systems
• Develop the test hardware and software systems required to efficiently execute performance and reliability validation within fast development schedules
• Analyze data, calculate statistics, and carefully document test results to support enterprise customers and regulatory certification efforts 
• Perform failure analysis to identify root cause and help develop process/design mitigations collaborating with mechanical, electrical and software engineering teams to rapidly implement corrective actions and resolve system issues
• Participate in design reviews and provide key design for reliability inputs to mitigate risks from first prototypes to first customer shipment and beyond.

What Will You Need:

• Experience in hands-on development, testing, and delivery of highly reliable complex systems
• Familiarity with testing equipment, best practices and methodologies for stress testing, environmental testing, and accelerated life testing to assess product durability and reliability under various conditions
• A systems-engineering approach to problem solving, and a knack for rapidly identifying issues within mechanical, electrical, and software domains as well as the gray areas between them on tightly integrated systems; strong desire to drive failure analyses to true root cause
• Enthusiastic tendencies toward diving into hands-on testing, characterization, and failure analysis, applying first principles to engineer creative solutions to complex problems
• Experience with Python, SQL or other programming languages for test automation, data analysis, and visualization
• Strong desire to learn and contribute across multiple domains within a dynamic and growing organization
• Excellent project management, written & verbal communication, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
• Experience with Python, SQL or other programming languages for test automation, data analysis, and visualization
• Strong desire to learn and contribute across multiple domains within a dynamic and growing organization
• Excellent project management, written & verbal communication, and cross-functional teamwork skills
• Bachelor's Degree

This is the pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position: $41.25/hour - $55.00/hour

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K