Hardware Test Technician - Lab Manager

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 102.4 million monthly active users (MAU), as of June 30, 2026, across more than 180 countries.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family).

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

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The Devices team at Life360 is responsible for building the connected hardware experiences that bring families closer to the people, pets, and things they care about. As we grow our ecosystem with first-party and third-party hardware, we are investing in expanding the capabilities for Life360's family safety platform. Our goal is to dramatically expand the number of connected devices in family circles, deepening engagement and driving subscription growth across our 102.4 million monthly active users.

We're looking for an experienced Hardware Test Technician to run our hardware test lab and support the engineering team across everything it takes to ship reliable consumer devices — test execution, soldering and rework, quality and returns analysis, and the logistics that keep it all moving.

This is the team's first dedicated Hardware Test Technician. You'll run the lab day to day, work side by side with our electrical, RF, and validation engineers, and help the team scale. You'll report to the Director of Hardware Engineering.

You'll own the lab end to end: the instruments, the fixtures, the test records, and the returns queue. In your first year, test results are traceable, and field returns are triaged, trended, and handed to engineering with a likely cause. New capabilities have been built out, and we have a roadmap to keep expanding them over the next year.

The devices business is growing fast, so the standards you set for testing, quality, and returns are the ones the team builds on.

• →Several years of hands-on experience in an electronics or hardware test lab; consumer electronics is a plus.
• →Associate degree in electronics, electrical engineering technology, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
• →Self-directed and organized, with the judgment to run a lab day to day without close supervision.
• →Careful and safety-minded, with strong documentation and data-logging habits.
• →Clear communicator who shares findings and flags problems early, in a form engineers can act on.
• →Curious about failures, following a breakage to its root cause.
• →Some familiarity with AI tools and a willingness to learn — you'll be encouraged to use AI (e.g., Claude Code) to build test harnesses and automate testing. Deep AI experience isn't required.

• Excellent hand soldering and small-board rework — a strength, not just a familiarity. Capable with BGA, QFN, and fine pitch component packages down to 0201/01005, and of complex rework and PCB modifications.
• Comfortable with standard bench instruments: oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, and power supplies.
• Test-fixture and cable building, with the mechanical aptitude to make things fit and work.
• Light scripting for data capture and test automation, and the test-fixture design to support it.
• ESD-safe practice and careful handling of sensitive components.

• Electrical and power measurement — checking supply rails and current draw with oscilloscopes, meters, and power supplies, and profiling power and battery drain (e.g., with a DC power analyzer).
• Battery testing — charge/discharge cycling, capacity checks, and safe handling of lithium cells and packs.
• ESD testing and ESD-controlled handling.
• Basic mechanical and environmental tests — setting up and running drop, temperature/humidity, and thermal-cycling sequences, and logging results cleanly.
• Continuity checks and component-level troubleshooting, reading schematics to isolate faults.
• Some familiarity with basic RF/wireless bench checks like a transmit-power or signal-strength measurement. 

• Experience with defect analysis — finding what went wrong and why.
• Production quality experience — informing decisions about what we ship.
• Customer and field quality experience — analyzing returns and connecting field failures back to root cause.

• Broader product-reliability testing — tumble, mechanical shock, and random or sine vibration.
• Accelerated and environmental stress — thermal shock, HAST (damp heat), and accelerated-life screens (HALT/HASS).
• Ingress and durability — water and dust ingress (IPX7/IP68), salt-fog and corrosion, button and connector life-cycling, and chemical or materials exposure.
• A broader mechanical background — comfort across a range of mechanical and environmental test rigs. Knowledge of ASTM/ISO test standards would be a plus.
• Over-the-air (OTA) RF testing in an anechoic chamber (TRP/TIS), and GPS/GNSS testing with a constellation simulator.
• Familiarity with pre-compliance or certification testing (FCC, UL, IEC).
• IPC (J-STD-001 / IPC-A-610) or ESD certification.

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