Firmware Validation Engineer

On-Site role

Job Description:

• Our team is seeking a hands-on Firmware Validation Engineer to join the Firmware - Connectivity and Audio team.
• This is a validation-focused role centered on manual feature testing, expanding test coverage, root-causing defects, and triaging field issues across in-cabin connected experiences.
• The engineer will own day-to-day test execution and defect quality for Audio and Streaming feature tracks.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform manual feature validation, including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing for Audio and Streaming features on bench setups and in-vehicle systems.
• Develop and maintain test content by creating new test cases, enhancing existing test suites, and keeping documentation up to date.
• Identify coverage gaps, add missing test scenarios, and track overall coverage health across feature areas.
• Conduct root cause analysis by reproducing defects, collecting logs, and analyzing data using tools such as Wireshark, DLT, ADB, HCI/Bluetooth traces, and vehicle logs.
• Lead first-level triage of Audio and Streaming field issues by reproducing problems in the lab, narrowing scope, and collaborating with firmware and diagnostics teams to drive resolution.
• Manage the full defect lifecycle in JIRA, including documentation, severity assessment, fix verification, and regression validation.
• Maintain test benches, vehicle test rigs, and diagnostic environments to ensure release readiness.
• Work closely with firmware engineers, product managers, and integration teams to support feature readiness and prioritization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on firmware validation, QA, or embedded systems testing experience.
• Strong experience creating and executing validation plans, developing test cases, closing coverage gaps, and managing defects through resolution.
• Hands-on validation experience in at least one connectivity domain, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE/5G, GNSS, or vehicle networking.
• Strong debugging and log analysis skills using tools such as Wireshark, DLT, ADB, and similar diagnostic tools.
• Experience reproducing and isolating issues reported from field or production environments.
• Working knowledge of Python scripting for automation and log parsing.
• Comfortable working in Linux/Ubuntu environments.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Agile development processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with in-cabin entertainment systems and media casting frameworks.
• Bluetooth stack validation experience, including Pairing, A2DP, HFP, AVRCP, and interoperability testing.
• Strong background in wireless connectivity technologies.
• Experience supporting autonomous vehicle, robotaxi, or fleet-based environments.

Supplier Call Notes / Key Hiring Priorities

• Looking for candidates with 8+ years of experience.
• Strong preference for candidates from companies such as Rivian or similar automotive/embedded organizations.
• Heavy emphasis on Bluetooth Audio validation and testing.
• Majority of the work involves manual testing and validation.
• Candidates should have experience creating and executing validation plans and test strategies.
• Embedded Linux experience is important.
• Python is required, but only for basic automation and log analysis; deep Python expertise is not necessary.

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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