Firmware HIL Engineer

Applied Intuition•Mountain View, CA

52d•Onsite

About The Position

As a HIL engineer on our onboard software team, you will be responsible for testing our Vehicle OS features to ensure the quality and reliability of the FW features. You will architect, design, and implement firmware validation procedures, equipment, tooling, and automation to efficiently test firmware components and subsystems. You will work closely with development and integration teams to explore and validate the performance capabilities of our hardware and firmware to ensure code quality is high. Your effort to create and equip automated validation infrastructures and coverage reporting will have a direct impact on the reliability, robustness, and value of our products. Your impact will help accelerate the development, quality and reliability of the Vehicle OS platform.

Requirements

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability
Proficiency in Python, C, C++
2+ years of relevant experience in embedded design/validation
Expertise testing devices and debugging hardware (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, DMM)
Desire to participate in improving code robustness and designing testing infrastructure

Nice To Haves

Experience in electronic and system schematic design & capture (Altium Designer)
Experience with Docker, Linux
Experience designing or interfacing with test setups
Knowledge of source control (Git) and continuous integration (Jenkins)
Knowledge of EVs and testing hardware

Responsibilities

Design advanced automated test suites for the Hardware/Processor/Software-in-the-loop (HIL/PIL/SIL)
Architect methods of integrating the automated test suites into development processes
Create reporting mechanisms for automated testing for firmware and hardware
Work alongside the development and integration teams to create automated regression tests
Assist in creating test plans and framework
Explore and innovate methods of testing the robustness and quality of the zonal firmware
Understand and deconstruct complicated software systems and devise strategies to test these systems
Create and execute test plans designed to expose weakness or faults in components
Report the coverage of the automated tests and the metrics that the code is being evaluated against
Cohesively work with developers to optimize the acceleration of component validation with the use of metric driven data