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Senior System Test Engineer

Skylo · Mountain View, CA · Remote

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About Skylo

Skylo Technologies is a global NTN service provider, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Backed by Innovation Endeavors.

About the role

Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate Skylo’s NTN system functionality, scalability, and performance - from understanding requirements, to defining test plans to execution to automation Collaborate with system architects, software developers, and network engineers to define test strategies for new features and releases.

What they're looking for

  • Proven track record in system test or validation engineering or acceptance testing for large-scale, distributed, or telecommunications systems
  • Strong understanding of 3GPP cellular protocols (LTE/ 5G/ NBIOT-NTN), with a strong emphasis on RAN and Core Network components
  • Strong understanding of QA processes - from defining acceptance criteria to requirements to test suites
  • Hands-on experience with system integration, performance benchmarking, and end-to-end validation
  • Hands-on experience with load testing, chaos testing, fault injection, efficiency testing
  • Hands-on experience with protocol validation, device testing (using AT commands and otherwise), UE emulators
More about this role

The world still has coverage blind spots. You could help eliminate them at Skylo.

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity. We connect smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. No special hardware, no entirely new networks. Just billions of existing devices, suddenly reachable anywhere on Earth. We're not building toward this future. We're already in it.

Our direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents, covering more than 72 million square kilometers, in partnership with leading satellite operators, mobile network operators, Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs worldwide. And we're just getting started.

At the heart of it all is Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN: a 3GPP standards-based, cloud-native platform that seamlessly bridges terrestrial and satellite networks. It's the infrastructure that makes true anywhere, anytime connectivity possible.

When you join Skylo, you'll work at the intersection of three markets reshaping how the world stays connected: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. Enabling people outdoors and critical workflows in the world's most remote places.

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