Firmware Validation Engineer - Battery Management Systems
Zoox · Foster City, CA
Skills in this posting
The posting
As a Firmware Validation Engineer, you will validate firmware functionality at the component, subsystem and system level, ensuring features operate reliably within the broader vehicle platform.
This includes testing embedded applications, control logic, and feature integrations across hardware interfaces, sensors, and actuators to confirm they meet functional, performance, and safety requirements.
Your work directly impacts the quality and readiness of customer-facing features by catching issues early, improving integration stability, and ensuring smooth delivery of these features to internal customers.
Through close collaboration with firmware developers, systems engineers and cross-functional teams, you will help deliver robust and reliable features to production.
In this role, you will
Define and develop comprehensive test plans based on requirements, trace test cases to requirements, set pass/fail criteria and refine requirements based on test outcomes
Develop and implement test plans on multiple test layers (HiL, Dyno, Vehicle)
Define tooling needs to execute tests and evaluate results efficiently
Collaborate with system, firmware & hardware engineers to ensure implementations meet requirements and desired functionality in accordance with product requirements.
Investigate firmware issues through data analysis and issue reproduction
Qualifications
BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Systems Engineering
4+ years of experience in developing or testing embedded software
Test automation with Python or other scripting languages
Experience writing code with source control (Git)
Hands-on technical experience debugging complex systems involving networked microprocessors and software-controlled electrical or electromechanical devices
Experience parsing and analyzing log data/source code and identifying rootcause.
Positive attitude, team player, and ability to quickly adapt to changes
Bonus Qualifications
Working knowledge of components/systems such as drive unit, power steering, actuators, braking systems, powertrain and their interactions.
Experience with Python testing frameworks (Robot, pytest, etc.)
Experience with continuous integration/deployment systems
Experience using tools such as JIRA, TestRail, Polarion/JAMA/Doors, XRAY, etc.
Experience in systems validation or integration
Ability to develop test plans based on FMEA/vehicle safety concepts analysis
The PivotHop read
- What test engineers do insteadevery measured route out
- QA Engineer → Test Engineer55% readiness
- Hardware Engineer → Test Engineer49% readiness
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