San Francisco Feb 6 (IANS) Facebook is looking to hire an "extra-terrestrial product manager" in Southern California to lead its plans to beam Internet from the sky in future a media report said.
According to a job posting the company is looking for a veteran engineer with experience "taking novel communication/aerospace systems from early development phases to productisation and industry infusion" CNBC reported late on Monday.
The "extra-terrestrial product manager" will be based in Northridge California and work in the company s Facebook Connectivity research unit which is looking into technologies that include "free-space optical communication high frequency RF/mmWave RF and electro-mechanical."
"We are developing complex communications technologies that bring together advanced radio frequency electro-optical opto-mechanical electronics and software systems into an array of integrated packages and we need someone to help us interact with industry to transfer our developments into landed connectivity impact " the posting read.
Last year Facebook s solar-powered drone Aquila that will beam Internet down to the estimated four billion people worldwide successfully completed its second full-scale test flight.
"Over the next year we are going to keep testing Aquila -- flying higher and longer and adding more planes and payloads. It s all part of our mission to connect the world and help more of the four billion people who are not online access all the opportunities of the Internet " Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had written in a post.
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