Senior SDET Firmware Automation

Skills

About the Role

You will architect and build production-quality firmware test automation frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure for real photonic hardware. You will integrate testing into CI/CD, develop telemetry and results pipelines, debug failures across the firmware and hardware stack, and help shape testability, diagnostics, and monitoring.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, primarily on embedded products, including test framework and infrastructure design
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience architecting and building an automation framework or HIL system from scratch that is adopted and used daily by other engineers
• Strong Python skills, including fixture and abstraction layers, hardware drivers, and plugin or configuration architectures
• Working fluency in embedded C/C++
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines that run tests on physical hardware
• Track record of delivering robust automation amid fast-changing requirements and hardware
• Capacity to comply with federally mandated U.S. export control laws

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap of the firmware test automation framework across products, targets, sites, and teams
• Design and build stable automation for new firmware features and hardware
• Build and operate hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure, including fixtures, device farms, power and reset control, instrument integration, and CI orchestration
• Define test strategy, plans, and reporting, and lead test plan reviews
• Integrate firmware testing into CI/CD so changes are built, flashed, exercised on hardware, and reported automatically
• Own framework reliability and flaky-test metrics
• Build results, telemetry, and log pipelines for triage, trend analysis, and release decisions
• Debug failures across firmware, boards, instruments, fixtures, and test code
• Participate in firmware design reviews to improve testability and diagnostics
• Integrate with CMIS, OpenBMC, and DMTF interfaces and debug embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers
• Define diagnostics and monitoring architecture for photonic transceivers
• Mentor engineers on test architecture and write documentation for non-specialists

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision health care plan
• Retirement savings matching program
• Life insurance, including basic, voluntary, and AD&D coverage
• Generous vacation, sick time, and public holidays
• Paid family leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Training and development
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible hybrid workplace model
• Equity grants for eligible full-time employees