Senior Firmware Validation Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Firmware Validation Engineer with a builder’s mindset.

While your primary mission is to ensure the integrity of our optical modules through rigorous testing, you won't just be finding bugs — you'll be invited to help squash them.

This role offers the unique opportunity to contribute directly to firmware development, making it ideal for a validation expert who wants to keep their coding skills sharp and influence the product architecture.

Test Strategy & Design:
Analyze product requirements and functional specifications to design comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases for firmware validation.

Development Contribution:
Collaborate with the design team to write and optimize firmware code, implement bug fixes, and develop new features for optical control.

Test Case Architecture:
Transform complex technical requirements into sophisticated Python-based automation frameworks.

Cross-Functional Debugging:
Lead root-cause analysis sessions, bridging the gap between hardware, firmware, and optical physics.

Agile Execution:
Rapidly pivot between high-priority tasks in a fast-paced environment where requirements and hardware revisions evolve quickly.

Experience:

5+ years in firmware validation or embedded software development.

Technical Core:
Bachelor’s degree in EE or CE and a penchant for solving complex technical problems.

Scripting & Tooling:
Expert-level Python skills for automation. Experience with C/C++ is required for your contributions to the firmware codebase.

Lab

Skills:

Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and standard lab equipment (Oscilloscopes, Optical Spectrum Analyzers, BERTs).

Mindset: A 'fail fast, learn faster' attitude. You must be highly flexible and thrive in a high-pressure, rapid-growth setting.

Automation:
Proven track record of building automated test benches from scratch to validate hardware/firmware interactions.

Optics:
Familiarity with Silicon Photonics or Optical Transceivers is highly

MCU:
Prior experience with STM
32 family of microcontrollers is a plus.

You don't just follow a checklist; you anticipate where the system might fail and have the technical chops to suggest—or implement—the solution. You are comfortable with ambiguity and can re-prioritize your day as project needs shift.

This isn't a siloed role. You will have a seat at the table during the entire development lifecycle, from initial concept to final module deployment, working at the cutting edge of