Embedded Firmware Validation Engineer
Applied IntuitionBase Salary
$118k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and execute validation strategies for AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive software stacks.
- Validate automotive communication protocols including CAN/CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet, SOME/IP, DoIP, PDU Routing, Network Management, and Transport Protocols.
- Verify Safe OS, diagnostics, platform security, and functional safety features.
- Perform functional, robustness, boundary, timing, negative, and fault-injection testing.
- Execute tests on HIL benches, SIL environments, restbus simulations, and target hardware.
- Develop and maintain automated Python and pytest test frameworks for regression and nightly validation.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to improve coverage and release quality.
- Investigate and debug software, communication-stack, and hardware failures using trace tools, debuggers, and bus analyzers.
- Collaborate with BSW, firmware, and functional safety teams to reproduce, root-cause, and resolve issues.
- Author traceable test cases and validation documentation aligned with ASPICE and software requirements.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of embedded software validation, firmware testing, or Software Engineer in Test experience, ideally in automotive.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of AUTOSAR Classic and/or Adaptive architecture and validation methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with at least one automotive communication protocol, such as CAN/CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, or Automotive Ethernet.
- Working knowledge of Python or a similar scripting language and the ability to read embedded C.
- Familiarity with HIL/SIL testing and the Linux command line.
- Understanding of test-case design, defect lifecycles, and regression testing.
- Preferred experience with AUTOSAR Adaptive, POSIX-based operating systems, functional safety, automotive cybersecurity, automotive diagnostic and debugging tools, CI/CD tools, ASPICE, and test-management or ALM platforms.
Benefits
- Full-time employees primarily work in the office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
- The company offers reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and medical conditions.
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.