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Sr SDET– Firmware Automation

Location

Boston

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$178–225k

Gross per year

Experience

Senior

Senior level

Job summary

Responsibilities

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

  • 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, held to production-quality engineering standards
  • Build and operate HIL test infrastructure: bench and rack fixtures, device farms, power/reset control, instrument integration, and CI orchestration on real photonic hardware
  • Define test strategy, plans, and reporting; lead test plan reviews across teams
  • Integrate firmware testing into CI/CD so every change is built, flashed, exercised on hardware, and reported automatically

What they're looking for

  • Must have extensive experience with hardware-level automation (embedded systems, bench setups, physical devices) amid frequent hardware revision
  • 8+ years of professional software development, primarily on embedded products, must have designing test frameworks and infrastructure
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • At least one automation framework or HIL system architected and built from scratch, adopted by other engineers, and in daily use and the ability to discuss its design, tradeoffs…
  • Strong Python: fixture and abstraction layers, hardware drivers, plugin/configuration architectures

Tech stack

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