Staff Embedded Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to the team through all aspects of testing embedded firmware across the product cycle and ensure all software is thoroughly tested.
• Own communications with cross-functional teams and represent the team in technical discussions, design reviews, and project reviews.
• Design comprehensive test strategies for embedded firmware projects, including black-box, white-box, stress, long-duration, integration, and system testing.
• Work with the team to develop automation plans that increase test efficiency, coverage, and repeatability.
• Implement tests during both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of embedded firmware development.
• Find issues and triage/debug them in collaboration with embedded software, firmware, hardware, and systems teams.
• Present test results, coverage, risks, and defect findings to product owners, internal customers, and software developers to assist in resolving issues.
  

Required Skills and Qualifications

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 8 years of experience, or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 6 years of experience.
Strong knowledge of embedded systems, embedded firmware, and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
Experience with a variety of MCU and DSP cores/processors and the software stacks that support them.
Strong leadership skills with a consistent track record of delivering embedded software and firmware projects.
Proficiency with Python, shell, C, and C++, with hands-on experience developing reusable embedded test frameworks, test utilities, and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
Knowledge and hands-on experience in embedded hardware or firmware system testing sufficient to design and execute test strategies, develop test plans, identify defects, and assess system-level functionality and reliability.
Knowledge of requirements analysis and test case development, including interpreting technical requirements, deriving comprehensive test scenarios, and documenting traceable test cases with clear expected results.
Experience automating functional, regression, integration, and system-level tests for embedded hardware or firmware, and analyze automated test results.
Ability to debug embedded hardware or firmware using logs, traces, debuggers, instrumentation, and systematic root-cause analysis.
Experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers for measurement and debugging of embedded systems.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

Experience with Jira, SVN/Git, and continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
Familiarity with defect management practices.
Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Experience with Agile Scrum software development.
Experience developing and implementing embedded software and firmware tests on development boards.
Experience validating embedded firmware across hardware, software, and system-level interfaces.