Phoebe Altenhofen
About Phoebe Altenhofen
Phoebe Altenhofen is a Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer III, currently employed at Skydio. She has extensive experience in hardware reliability and testing, having worked on multiple products from concept to production.
Current Role at Skydio
Phoebe Altenhofen currently holds the position of Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer III at Skydio, where she has been employed since 2023. In this role, she leads reliability and test efforts for multiple products, overseeing the process from concept to production. Her responsibilities include designing and implementing data analyses to evaluate field failure risks and test acceleration factors. She utilizes a combination of internal test data, field data, and environmental data to inform her analyses.
Previous Experience at Skydio
Prior to her current role, Phoebe Altenhofen worked at Skydio as a Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer I from 2020 to 2022 and as a Hardware Reliability and Test Engineer II from 2022 to 2023. During her time at Skydio, she developed hardware product requirement documents and engineering requirement documents. She also consulted with cross-functional teams to enhance design for reliability and conducted risk assessments and failure analyses.
Internship Experience
Phoebe Altenhofen has gained valuable experience through various internships. She served as a Robotics Hardware and Design Intern at Exyn Technologies Inc in 2019 for three months, where she contributed to hardware design projects. Additionally, she worked as a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Protosthetics in 2018 for three months. Earlier in her career, she completed a month-long internship at NextFab in 2015, where she gained exposure to the design and engineering processes.
Educational Background
Phoebe Altenhofen studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a focus on Mechanical Engineering from 2016 to 2020. She also participated in a semester abroad program at The University of Edinburgh in 2019, studying Computer and Information Sciences. Earlier, she attended Pratt Institute, where she studied Industrial and Product Design for 11 months in 2014.
Technical Skills and Contributions
Phoebe Altenhofen has developed custom hardware and software test infrastructure using Python and SQL, which significantly improved core test efficiency by over ten times. Her technical skills include data analysis, risk assessment, and failure analysis, which she applies to enhance product reliability. She leads efforts to create hardware product requirement documents and collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure design integrity.