Lab Operations Lead, Systems Integration for AI Devices

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Consumer Devices is building what comes next in AI-enabled consumer products. The Lab Operations Manager, Systems Integration, will own the day-to-day operation of a large-scale consumer device test lab, ensuring fleets, test rigs, lab infrastructure, inventory, provisioning, maintenance, and logistics run smoothly for validation and release testing.

The role requires hands-on operations leadership, organization, and comfort with consumer electronics to build the lab operating model from

Qualifications

• Proven track-record of operating or supporting a hardware, electronics, reliability, manufacturing, or QA test lab.
• Hands-on experience managing fleets of consumer electronics, embedded devices, prototypes, or connected hardware.
• Comfortable setting up, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining devices, test rigs, networking, power systems, and peripherals across USB, Wi‑Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, power, and device connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Own device fleet and inventory: Manage configuration, deployment, tracking, lifecycle, and accurate asset records for a large fleet of consumer devices and test equipment; coordinate receiving, storage, checkout, shipping, transfers, spares, and secure disposal.
• Operate and maintain the lab: Keep racks, benches, test rigs, cabling, power, networking, peripherals, and shared equipment reliable and organized; diagnose issues and coordinate repairs, replacements, and preventive maintenance.
• Prepare devices for testing: Flash, provision, reset, configure, label, and assign devices to test environments.
• Support testing and diagnostics: Partner with engineering and QA on large-scale test automation setups, failure reproduction, diagnostics collection, log capture, and environment resets.
• Plan lab readiness and capacity: Track fleet health, rig availability, utilization, and upcoming test needs; identify constraints before they block testing.
• Partner across teams: Work with hardware, systems, QA, reliability, IT, and infrastructure teams to keep the lab ready for development and release activities.

Skills

Hardware & electronics

Lab fleet management

Lab operations & maintenance

Job description

Consumer Devices is building what comes next in AI-enabled consumer products. The Lab Operations Manager, Systems Integration, will own the day-to-day operation of a large-scale consumer device test lab, ensuring fleets, test rigs, lab infrastructure, inventory, provisioning, maintenance, and logistics run smoothly for validation and release testing.

The role requires hands-on operations leadership, organization, and comfort with consumer electronics to build the lab operating model from