Firmware QA Engineer
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Overview
Compensation
$80,000-$110,000/year
Job Description
Firmware QA Engineer (Embedded Test Engineer) In-Office - Westlake Village, CA $80,000 - $110,000
Job Summary
We are seeking a Firmware QA Engineer to improve reliability across an IoT-enabled cold chain logistics platform serving healthcare and pharmaceutical customers. This role is firmware-focused and hands-on - you will spend significant time running manual tests on real hardware, reproducing issues, collecting logs, and performing ship testing (pre-deployment verification) to ensure devices behave correctly before deployment.
You will work closely with firmware and hardware engineering, and coordinate with backend and operations teams to validate end-to-end behavior.
Responsibilities
- Validate firmware releases on hardware against defined scope and acceptance criteria
- Execute manual regression testing across core device behaviors (power, sensors, charging, connectivity, fault recovery)
- Perform ship testing and pre-deployment verification, including device setup, configuration checks, and release readiness validation for outgoing units
- Run dedicated firmware test passes for each release (smoke, regression, and targeted suites) and report clear pass/fail results
- Validate GPS functionality and firmware behavior, including time to first fix, accuracy checks, signal loss and recovery, and low-signal edge cases
- Reproduce and triage device issues using logs and lab tools (serial logs, in-house tooling)
- Partner with firmware and hardware engineers early to clarify expected behavior, edge cases, and testability needs
- Validate connectivity behavior relevant to firmware, including pairing and stability
- Support investigation and reproduction of customer-impacting issues by capturing device evidence and helping isolate root cause boundaries
- Contribute light scripting and tooling to speed up repetitive checks (Python, shell) - automation is not the core requirement
- Communicate quality status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional stakeholders
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