Within the next decade, NASA, as well as governments and commercial entities around the world aim to establish a new lunar economy for sustainable exploration on the Moon. High bandwidth, reliable connectivity, and communications are a crucial component in making this ambition a reality. Future missions that require HD video, robotics, sensing applications, telemetry, biometrics, and astronaut to astronaut voice communications will need the advanced capabilities that cellular networks enable. Th...
Within the next decade, NASA, as well as governments and commercial entities around the world aim to establish a new lunar economy for sustainable exploration on the Moon. High bandwidth, reliable connectivity, and communications are a crucial component in making this ambition a reality. Future missions that require HD video, robotics, sensing applications, telemetry, biometrics, and astronaut to astronaut voice communications will need the advanced capabilities that cellular networks enable. This is why NASA selected Nokia Bell Labs to deploy the first 4G/LTE network on the Moon to test lunar surface communications for future applications. We relish this challenge – to deploy a network that will operate under the most extreme conditions imaginable – operate autonomously with self-healing capabilities - pushing the boundaries of communications - enabling the exploration and settlement of other moons and planets … are you up to the mission?
The successful candidate will lead a small test team and will be responsible to plan, develop, implement, and execute test campaigns for an end-to-end communication system and products in a dynamic and fast-paced environment and start-up culture. He/she will be a senior engineer with extensive testing experience and a successful product delivery track record. The test team lead must be an innovative, self-motivated thinker with a proactive and creative approach for developing and implementing test concepts and approaches, including but not limited to fully automated test campaigns.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills, traits, and experience:
- Independent, self-starter who can work with a dynamic and highly motivated group of researchers, engineers, hardware, and software developers.
- Solid experience and proven track record in leading a team of system testers.
- Strong experience with quality assurance and quality control in product lifecycle.
- Solid experience in testing embedded system software involving wireless/cellular, networking, security, applications, and high availability software.
- Experience in the development and execution of test plans based on system requirements.
- Experience in establishing and maintaining test environments for regression, integration, and end to end system testing.
- Experience in test automation, processes, tools and scripting skills using Python, LabVIEW, PathWave, MatLab, etc.
- Knowledge of root cause analysis fundamentals.
- Experience with both hardware, environmental and software testing.
- Experience with type approval testing.
- Ability to work effectively with the system architecture and development teams to track down and resolve system problems.
- Ability to effectively manage changing requirements.
- Hands on experience in wireless system testing, certification, IoT and/or cellular system performance.
- Experience in defining, developing, and validating cellular modem system test cases for mobile devices using popular test development platforms.
- Strong understanding and experience with 3GPP specifications (LTE & NR Air Interface, 5G SA, PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC, PDCP and NAS layer).
- Broad spectrum of knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end wireless system architecture from wireless physical layer all the way to application layer.
- Consistent track record to independently lead a complete area of technology and drive product quality.
- Attention to the smallest details that are significant to customers.