Release and Integration Engineer

Release and Integration Engineer

San Diego, CA or San Jose, CA; San Jose, California, United States

If you are keen to work with a bunch of brilliant people with various backgrounds, if you share the same value of working smart and celebrating successes, if you have enthusiasm for big technology in a small company, if your goals are to learn and experience different aspects of work--not just singing the same song every day, you'll find your playground at Innophase IoT.

We are looking for people seeking AWESOMENESS! If you're good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you're the best at what you do, come work at Innophase IoT!

We are seeking a highly motivated Release/Integration Technical Program Engineer to join our Connectivity firmware team. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in embedded software development and a proven track record of delivering reliable firmware for wireless IoT solutions. This is a contract role with the potential to convert to full-time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and deploy firmware releases for multi-component builds, including bootloader, firmware, OS, and applications, using embedded toolchains.
• Define versioning and branching strategies and automate promotions and changelog generation.
• Work cross-functionally with SW, ASIC, DevOps, and SQA teams to resolve deployment issues and ensure release readiness.
• Review code commits to feature readiness, stability, and performance against the software and system roadmap.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve release velocity, reliability, and engineering productivity across the SDLC.
• Integrate unit and integration test results, quarantine flaky tests, automatically bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
• Develop strategies for safe rollback and roll-forward
• Manage complex, end-to-end SoC development workflows from pre-silicon through launch.
• Maintain clear documentation to ensure all changes are documented, approved, and verified.

Job Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, with 510 years of experience in integration and release engineering.
• Experience with development and source control tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, and Git.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux and distributed computing environments.
• Experience working with toolchains for embedded software development.
• Experience with C programming; knowledge of Python is a plus.
• Experience with wireless products such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or Zigbee is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a diverse, team-oriented environment.
• Proven track record of delivering products and features on schedule.

Desirable Skills:

• 510 years of hands-on experience in real-time embedded systems integration and management.
• Working knowledge of networking stacks, including Ethernet and the TCP/IP suite.
• Strong team player with a sense of urgency to meet product timelines.
• Experience managing complex projects using MS Project, Smartsheet, and JIRA.
• Working knowledge of Agile development workflows.

It is key to unleash the potential in every employee, every team, every leader, and the company herself. We know employees perform best when motivated, appreciated and recognized, and can be themselves. We are committed to building a culture where every voice can be heard, everyone has room for growth and can make meaningful contributions. At the end of the day, we want success not just for the company, but also for everyone who believes in the company, the vision, and the future.