Design and implement automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for embedded hardware and software. Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests. Build and maintain R&D and production test environments, collaborate to debug firmware and hardware, define testability in design reviews, support manufacturing partners, and enable customers onsite (10-20% travel).
In today's dynamic worksites, seamless collaboration between people and machines is essential. FORT's platform ensures safe, secure, and dynamic control that surpasses legacy systems and next-generation AI capabilities.
While autonomous machines offer significant advantages, they also introduce new safety challenges. FORT addresses these concerns by providing solutions such as the Wireless E-Stop, which allows operators to instantly stop any machine from a safe distance, enhancing safety during emergencies.
Additionally, FORT's Safe Remote Control enables operators to manage heavy machinery remotely, reducing the risk of accidents and improving visibility.
By ensuring communications integrity across any network, FORT empowers customers to protect their most valuable assets—people, data, and machines—ensuring they remain safe and secure.
We are searching for a dynamic and experienced Sr. Embedded Software Engineer-Test Automation to join our team and help us build the future for autonomous and robotic machines.
Responsibilities
- Develop test methods and procedures to transition products from design into volume manufacturing. Design automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for software and hardware validation, including integration, unit, and system testing as part of an end-to-end test framework.
- Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests for Fort devices, manually or automatically. Establish test plans, procedures, and documentation to ensure repeatable and reliable testing.
- Collaborate with internal and external hardware and software design teams to identify, debug, and resolve new firmware and electrical hardware issues.
- Contribute to design reviews, defining testability requirements early in product development.
- Support the product engineering team in developing and maintaining R&D test environments.
- Work with manufacturing partners to create and document production test processes, including hardware and software.
- Support production and program management with the technical expertise required for special customer deliveries.
- Contribute to the re-engineering of current designs to improve quality and manufacturability.
- Work directly with customers at customer sites to help drive customer success through direct enablement. This could involve 10-20% travel.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in Pytest/test frameworks and scaling system design principles.
- Familiarity with C++ and MATLAB.
- Preferred degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Skilled in requirement management tools (Jama, Polarion) and requirement testing.
- Experience in custom hardware design.
- Experience with safety standards like IEC 61508 and ISO 26262.
Qualifications
- An engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing tests for complex embedded products. 2+ years of experience in embedded software test automation and test framework development.
- Proficiency in software development (Python, Bash), including data analysis tools like Numpy and Pandas. Experience with hardware and software validation processes and infrastructures (Hardware-in-the-loop/Software-in-the-loop).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker, CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins), and version control (Git). Skilled in designing custom hardware and software fixtures or tools for embedded system testing. Experienced with both wired (Ethernet, CAN, UART) and wireless (BLE, Wi-Fi, LTE) networking technologies. Able to track multiple efforts and report status to various stakeholders within Fort.
- Able to effectively communicate solutions, ideas, and processes to technical and non-technical staff in and outside of Fort.
- Growth-minded and looking for an opportunity to advance with Fort.
- Excited and enthusiastic when working on products and technologies that have a real impact.
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