Base Salary
$140k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and execute OTA validation plans across device families and release types.
- Build and scale automated hardware-in-the-loop, virtualized-device, and emulator-based testbeds and harnesses.
- Automate OTA pipelines from artifact signing and staging through rollout and post-update verification using Python, shell, and CI tools.
- Validate bootloaders, update agents, package formats, rollbacks, A/B partitions, recovery modes, and secure update properties.
- Test update resilience under intermittent networks, latency, packet loss, power interruptions, low battery, storage constraints, and corrupted images.
- Define rollout-health metrics and KPIs, instrument devices and cloud backends, and produce release-readiness reports.
- Perform root cause analysis on failed updates, reproduce field issues, and drive remediation with firmware and backend teams.
- Maintain device lab hardware and tooling, including JTAG, serial consoles, network emulators, power controllers, logic analyzers, Wireshark, and serial monitors.
- Improve OTA processes through staging strategies, canary rollouts, rollback thresholds, risk assessments, and runbook documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience validating embedded devices and firmware updates, including OTA or similar systems.
- Strong Python and shell scripting ability, with familiarity with C/C++ for embedded debugging.
- Deep understanding of embedded Linux and/or RTOS platforms, bootloaders such as U-Boot, partition schemes, and A/B update models.
- Experience building automated test harnesses and integrating tests into CI pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Experience with serial/UART, JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, power-cycling rigs, and related hardware debugging workflows.
- Familiarity with HTTP(S), MQTT, CoAP, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, cellular, BLE, logs, packet captures, and device telemetry.
- Strong debugging, failure reproduction, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
- Preferred experience with AWS IoT Device Management, Mender, Azure IoT, Google Cloud IoT, secure update practices, PKI, TPM or secure elements, secure boot, CAN/LIN, and automotive-grade validation.
- Preferred familiarity with Docker, QEMU, canary and staged rollouts, feature flags, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100%, 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
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company on a mission to build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous. Originally incubated within Rivian, we’re rethinking transportation from first principles to create a new generation of smaller, smarter, and more connected electric vehicles. Our team combines automotive rigor with advanced software, autonomy, sensing, and vertically integrated EV technologies to build products designed around the realities of modern mobility. We believe small vehicles are not a niche category, but a foundational shift in how people, goods, and communities will move through the world in the decades ahead. At ALSO, details matter. We’re builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers who care deeply about craft, innovation, and the everyday experiences our products create. Because movement is more than transportation—it’s connection, culture, freedom, and collective impact. We’re building that future now.