Automation and Validation Engineer

Position: Staff Automation and Validation Engineer
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** Automation and Verification Engineer page is loaded## Staff Automation and Verification Engineer remote type:
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Waukesha, WI - USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
JR13037
** We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
** Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Generac is seeking a Staff Automation and Validation Engineer to lead the design and expansion automation to validate next-generation renewable energy and distributed energy products. This role will be a key technical leadership position within the system validation organization, responsible for building scalable automated test solutions that provide reliability assurance and performance optimization for complex electrical and embedded systems. This ecosystem includes hybrid inverters, battery energy storage systems, PV microinverters, smart disconnect switches, generators, and connected IoT ecosystem interactions.
This engineer will define and implement automation architecture, develop robust test frameworks, integrate lab equipment and hardware communication interfaces, and enable long-duration, repeatable, and traceable system-level validation. The role requires strong software development capability paired with hands-on experience testing power electronics, embedded controls, and hardware-software integrated systems. This validation will ensure compliance with industry standards and product requirements. You will work in a collaborative, high-tech environment and contribute to the success of our innovative energy solutions with your coding abilities and knowledge.

The ideal candidate will work out of Waukesha, WI and will serve as a technical leader driving automation strategy, mentoring engineers, and partnering cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, systems, quality, and product teams.
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* Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

*** Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of scalable automated test frameworks for repeatable, high-coverage, system-level validation of electrical systems in lab and hardware-integrated environments, focusing on power conversion, inverters, PV optimizers, generator interactions, and IoT devices.
* Integrate automation with lab instrumentation and test equipment including power supplies, electronic loads, grid simulators, DAQs, oscilloscopes, relays, thermal chambers, and communication interfaces.
* Develop software for test orchestration, equipment control, data acquisition, fault injection, diagnostics, and automated reporting and visualization.
* Build and maintain automation solutions that interface with hardware and embedded systems using field bus protocols.
* Troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues across software, hardware, communications, and test infrastructure; identify root causes and drive effective corrective actions.
* Further expand cloud data platform for testing data and provide recommendations for improvement.
* Collaborate cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, systems engineering, quality, and product teams to define requirements, improve test coverage, and support release readiness for product enhancements.
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