AI Software Engineer in Test

Your Title: AI Software Engineer in Test

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Our Department: Core GNSS

Ready to redefine software testing with the power of AI?

Ready to make a tangible impact on global industries using cutting-edge, high-precision GNSS technology? The Core GNSS QA team is seeking a motivated problem-solver to automate our extensive regression test suite. You will directly enhance software quality and accelerate release cycles by developing automated tests utilizing Python and JavaScript, ensuring centimeter-level accuracy for autonomous machines and precise layout workflows worldwide.

The AI SDET is responsible for improving the quality of software releases through automation processes and tools enhancements. Working in an agile development environment, the AI SDET will develop and apply customized AI testing methodologies to show measurable improvements to the released software. This includes responsibility for using AI to automate test cases and pipeline workflows to accelerate our testing and release cycles.

About Us

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

Core GNSS Group: Trimble's Core GNSS group is the powerhouse behind the company's world-leading positioning technology, developing the high-precision engines that drive industries like construction, agriculture, and geospatial surveying. Our work provides the essential "digital-to-physical" bridge that enables autonomous machines and precise layout workflows worldwide.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, you will scale one of Trimble's core competitive advantages: our massive continuous testing ecosystem. You'll spearhead the evolution of our testing maturity, managing an extensive network of GNSS receivers to guarantee our world-leading positioning engines deliver unrivaled precision. Beyond traditional methods, you will pioneer the integration of autonomous AI agents and multi-tool AI workflows to redefine quality assurance for the next generation of positioning technology.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated regression test suites using Python and JavaScript to streamline manual testing efforts.

• Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to integrate automated testing into the full software development lifecycle.

• Drive the evolution of our "digital-to-physical" bridge by ensuring the reliability of firmware across all global satellite constellations.

• Resolve technical bottlenecks and optimize test cycles to accelerate the delivery of high-precision positioning engines.

• Present test results through innovative frontend solutions to provide clear data-driven insights to stakeholders.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of software development or automated testing experience with a BSEE, BSCS, or equivalent degree.

• Proficiency in Python for backend development and receiver interaction, and JavaScript for frontend results presentation.

• Hands-on experience with Git, BitBucket, and Shell/Terminal within a CI/CD environment.

• Strong understanding of Ethernet computer networks and serial communication protocols.

• MCP server experience.

• Strong understanding of AI basic concepts (Cursor, Claude, others).

• Ability to create automations using multiple AI tools in a QA environment.

• Prior experience in test automation and scripting in Python, JavaScript.

• Strong understanding of QA processes.

• Knowledge of cloud and virtualization testing environments and deployment testing.

• Strong technical skills.

• Experience with QA-related tools for requirements management, test management, and defect tracking

• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and solve complex technical problems with a proactive mindset.

Bonus Points For:

• Specific experience with GNSS receiver technology or high-precision positioning systems.

• Knowledge of Linux environments.

• Familiar with embedded AI and chatbot testing techniques

• AI test automation is a plus.

Logistics:

• Location: Sunnyvale, CA (In Office)

• Travel Requirement: Available for limited and preplanned travel, seldom internationally, to support testing initiatives.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

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Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range

$103,100.00-$141,700.00

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Bonus Eligible?

Yes

Commission Eligible?

No

Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at under "Corporate Governance."

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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