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Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Beaverton, OR (On-Site)
Job Summary: We are partnering on an exciting opportunity for a technical quality professional who thrives in fast-moving, startup-style environments. Our client is seeking a builder-minded specialist to help strengthen firmware, controls, and connected product validation through automation, test infrastructure, and disciplined release readiness practices.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated validation frameworks for firmware, controls, and connected services.
- Develop test infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines that improve release confidence and engineering velocity.
- Design and implement hardware-in-the-loop and system-level automated test environments.
- Investigate complex system failures, perform root cause analysis, and create clear validation documentation and reporting.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
- 5 years of experience as an SDET, firmware quality engineer or embedded software engineer.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience developing production-quality automation tooling.
- Experience building automated test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and validation infrastructure.
- Experience validating embedded systems, robotics, mechatronics products, wearables, or connected devices.
- Experience investigating complex system behavior through logs, telemetry, debugging tools, and root cause analysis.
Preferred Experience
- Robotics, exoskeletons, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or mechatronics
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing environments
- Sensor fusion, controls systems, motion systems, or real-time software
- BLE communication, mobile-device interactions, and OTA firmware updates
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms
- MATLAB, CAN tools, embedded diagnostics, or hardware debugging tools
- Startup, R&D, incubation, or 0?1 product development environments
- Experience using modern AI-enabled engineering workflows and tools
About SSI People: With over 26 years of industry experience, SSi People has built its reputation and expertise on putting people first. Everything we do works toward delivering exceptional experience for our consultants, our clients, and our internal team. Through a genuine commitment to people in everything we do. We have developed refined processes and a stellar internal team to deliver talent quickly. More importantly, we focus on building long-term relationships, not transactions. Putting people first is just what we do well.
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