Sr. Validation & Tools Engineer - Dev Tools
$140k - $175kFull-time
ALSO.
About ALSO. We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient. As a Sr. Validation & Tools Engineer - Dev Tools you will partner cross-functionally with Software, Hardware, QA, Systems, and Product teams to design and implement developer productivity and engineering enablement tools. This role will require developing product-facing and internal engineering tools, including command line interfaces, automat What You Will Do (Responsibilities)
- Build and maintain internal tooling and infrastructure for report generation, test dashboards, traceability, quality metrics, and system observability.
- Integrate AI-assisted development workflows into daily engineering practice, including prompt design, evaluation, and optimization for code generation, test creation, triage, documentation, and developer support tools.
- Create scalable Python-based systems and automations using modern best practices, including static analysis, linting, unit testing, and maintainable software design.
- Troubleshoot and resolve software defects, performance bottlenecks, tooling gaps, and platform-specific issues across a range of operating systems, hardware targets, and development environments.
- Drive tooling solutions that improve collaboration and handoffs across teams, helping unify workflows between firmware, applications, mobile, cloud, and test engineering.
- Participate in peer code reviews and technical design discussions, providing thoughtful feedback and helping maintain a high bar for quality, reliability, and
- BS or MS in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in software design and development of tools, automation, and infrastructure supporting quality engineering, CI/CD, and embedded software or firmware development.
- Strong professional proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience building internal tools, test frameworks, automation systems, and engineering productivity workflows.
- Experience applying AI-based code generation and developer tooling in practical engineering environments, including effective prompt engineering for day-to-day development, testing, debugging, and workflow automation.
- Hands-on experience with AI developer tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Gemini is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to work across cross-functional teams and translate diverse stakeholder needs into useful, maintainable tooling.
- Proficiency with modern version control systems, especially Git.
- Familiarity with test automation and validation tools for vertically integrated products spanning embedded firmware, application software, mobile apps, and cloud backends (for example: Selenium, Appium, Espresso, Pytest, Vysor).
- Experience interfacing with hardware using protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, and JTAG; familiarity with automotive systems and protocols such as CAN, CAN-FD, and UDS is a plus.
- Experience with modern Python tooling such as uv, ruff, ty, and pyright is a plus.
- A strong passion for building tooling that improves developer velocity, engineering quality, and cross-team collaboration.
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