Embedded Test Automation Engineer
Project Canary2 months ago
Hayward, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$130k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain an integrated automated test environment for embedded Linux hardware.
- Automate device identification, network booting, disk partitioning, file-system configuration, and software installation.
- Develop secure workflows for storing and retrieving device calibration results and instrument configuration data from cloud-based systems.
- Design and expand automated test suites using Python, Pytest, LabVIEW, or similar tools.
- Develop Python tools integrating with existing LabVIEW and Python calibration systems.
- Troubleshoot issues across hardware, operating systems, software, and network connections.
- Partner with hardware, firmware, test, manufacturing, and cloud teams on device bring-up, testing, and configuration.
- Improve the reliability, repeatability, and maintainability of production test processes.
Requirements
- 4–7 years of experience in embedded systems, test automation, manufacturing test engineering, or a related field.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience building maintainable automation tools.
- Hands-on experience with Pytest or a similar framework for hardware, system, or integration testing.
- Working knowledge of embedded Linux, including boot processes, network booting, storage partitioning, and file-system configuration.
- Experience integrating systems through APIs, cloud databases, or other data services.
- Ability to diagnose complex issues across hardware, operating systems, software, and networks.
- Experience working across engineering disciplines to deliver production-ready systems.
- Practical approach to documentation, error handling, and long-term maintainability.
- Preferred experience developing or maintaining LabVIEW automation and integrating LabVIEW with Python.
- Preferred familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop test environments and automated laboratory equipment.
- Preferred experience applying CI/CD practices to embedded systems or physical hardware testing.
- Preferred experience supporting production provisioning, calibration, or manufacturing test systems.
- Preferred familiarity with cloud-based data storage, device configuration management, or disaster-recovery workflows.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $130,000–$150,000.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles; the company pays 99% for the employee and 50% for dependents and/or spouse.
- 401(k) with company match and no vesting period.
- Student loan assistance.
- Unlimited PTO, six sick days per year, and 11 paid company holidays per year.
- Up to 12 weeks of fully paid gender-neutral parental leave, including adoptions.
About Project Canary
Project Canary builds emissions-monitoring hardware and software for energy operators, combining methane sensors with a data analytics and reporting platform. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, integrates data from multiple sources to help oil, gas, and LNG participants detect leaks, manage compliance, and assess ESG performance. Its Aeris Technologies subsidiary develops laser-based gas analyzers for fixed, mobile, handheld, and aerial deployments.