5 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for embedded firmware and software validation.
- Design, scale, and maintain SIL and HIL validation infrastructure for automated system testing, regression coverage, release readiness, and issue reproduction.
- Build and evolve Python-based validation frameworks to improve coverage, execution speed, reliability, traceability, and quality reporting.
- Establish validation metrics covering test coverage, pass/fail trends, defect escape rate, regression health, automation coverage, and release readiness.
- Lead end-to-end validation planning for new features, firmware releases, connectivity workflows, and system-level product behavior.
- Partner with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Mobile, Cloud, Product, and Test Engineering teams to align requirements, risks, and validation plans.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex issues across hardware, firmware, embedded software, connectivity, and test infrastructure.
- Integrate validation workflows into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar systems.
- Use SIL/HIL environments, embedded debug tools, logs, sniffers, and hardware interfaces to reproduce, isolate, and resolve defects.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on validation strategy, debugging, test design, automation, and quality ownership.
- Communicate validation status, technical risks, quality trends, and release readiness to engineering and product leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software validation, firmware testing, software quality engineering, or validation tools development.
- Experience leading validation strategy or test architecture for complex embedded, connected, automotive, mobility, IoT, or software-defined vehicle platforms.
- Experience building or scaling automated validation frameworks for firmware, embedded software, system-level testing, or hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Hands-on experience testing RTOS-based or Linux-based embedded systems.
- Strong knowledge of embedded architectures, microcontrollers, bootloaders, firmware update flows, hardware/software interfaces, and board-level debugging.
- Experience with embedded debug tools and interfaces such as JTAG, serial consoles, SWD, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
- Experience validating connectivity, location services, mobile-connected features, or wireless technologies including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE, or GNSS.
- Strong Python programming and scripting skills and experience with automation frameworks such as Robot Framework or Pytest.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD systems and automated validation workflows using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
- Experience with SIL and HIL validation environments, including automation, reporting, defect reproduction, and regression analysis.
- Familiarity with test management, requirements management, and bug-tracking tools for release reporting and validation traceability.
- Experience with embedded and automotive communication protocols including UDS, XCP, CAN, CAN-FD, I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and USB-PD.
- Experience using automotive network analysis or sniffer tools such as Vector CANoe or CANalyzer.
- Ability to lead root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, software, connectivity, and validation infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to explain validation strategy, quality risks, technical trade-offs, and release readiness.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and improving validation discipline in a fast-moving startup environment.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA and HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.
- Located in Silicon Valley.
About ALSO
ALSO builds small, efficient electric vehicles for moving people and goods in dense urban settings, with options planned for both driver-operated and autonomous use. The privately held company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, was originally incubated within Rivian and follows a vertically integrated approach spanning vehicle hardware, software, and sensing, selling directly through demos, retail experiences, and community activations.