Software Engineer

Ralliant • Boxborough, MA

15h

About The Position

Setra is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to help ensure the reliability, performance, and robustness of embedded devices used in critical environments such as data centers, industrial facilities, and building automation systems. The role works closely with software, hardware, and product teams to define and execute verification strategies across embedded Linux platforms, environmental and power monitoring firmware, and supporting applications. The engineer will help reduce field issues, improve test automation, and raise quality across the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Typically 6 years of experience in software quality, test engineering, or verification roles, with a strong focus on embedded or systems-level testing.
• Hands-on experience testing embedded Linux systems and/or firmware-driven devices.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, and experience validating device communications over wired and wireless networks.
• Experience testing industrial or building-automation protocols such as Modbus, BACnet, or similar.
• Proficiency with test automation and scripting, such as Python, shell scripting, or similar languages.
• Experience working with hardware-integrated software systems, including interaction with sensors, meters, or I/O.
• Experience testing industrial or device user interfaces, particularly with Squish.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and tracking tools such as Jira and Zephyr.
• Ability to analyze logs, packet captures, and system behavior to isolate complex, cross-disciplinary issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with software, hardware, product, and manufacturing teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience testing power meters and environmental controls.
• Exposure to long-running reliability testing, soak testing, and performance characterization.
• Experience validating systems with accuracy, stability, or compliance expectations.
• Familiarity with embedded build systems, release workflows, or cross-compiled environments.
• Background working with products deployed at scale in customer or industrial environments.

Responsibilities

• Promote and evolve the software verification and validation strategy for embedded products, including power meters, environmental monitors and controls, and edge gateways.
• Design, implement, and maintain manual and automated test coverage for embedded Linux software, firmware, and device-level features.
• Develop and execute system-level, integration, regression, and stress tests, including scenarios that reflect real-world customer deployments.
• Collaborate with software and hardware engineers to review requirements, designs, and risks, ensuring testability and quality are incorporated early.
• Investigate field and manufacturing issues by reproducing failures, analyzing logs and network traffic, and performing root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to test automation frameworks and CI pipelines to improve repeatability, coverage, and release confidence.
• Validate industrial and building-automation communications protocols, TCP/IP networks, and device-to-cloud interactions using MQTT.
• Define quality metrics and provide data-driven assessments of release readiness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed