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Embedded SW Test Engineer

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Embedded SW Test Engineer in USA

  • DoorDash
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automated HIL and SIL test benches using target hardware, simulation, and custom fixtures.
  • Own firmware regression as a reliability gate and integrate automated hardware testing into CI systems.
  • Design and run fault-injection campaigns covering sensor faults, bus dropouts, power anomalies, and motor-out conditions.
  • Build test tooling and instrumentation for signal injection, CAN/UART/I2C/SPI traffic generation and monitoring, telemetry capture, and automated log analysis.
  • Convert flight-test and field data into reproducible bench tests and regression coverage.
  • Contribute to DFMEA, firmware-side root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and reliability metrics.
  • Contribute to manufacturing and board bring-up test suites for new boards and subsystems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in embedded software test, firmware verification, or embedded reliability engineering.
  • Strong Python skills for test automation and tooling, plus working C/C++ skills for reading and instrumenting embedded software.
  • Hands-on experience testing bare-metal or RTOS firmware on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers such as STM32, including interrupts, timing, and clock-level behavior.
  • Experience building or operating hardware-in-the-loop test setups.
  • Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, debuggers, and JTAG-SWD tools such as pyOCD, OpenOCD, or J-Link.
  • Familiarity with CAN, CAN-FD, UART, I2C, and SPI.
  • Experience with Git, CMake, and CI systems such as GitHub Actions or Buildkite.
  • Ability to read schematics and use a soldering iron.
  • Preferred experience with Zephyr RTOS, devicetree, Kconfig, west, or a comparable RTOS.
  • Preferred familiarity with DFMEA, fault-tree or RBD analysis, root-cause methods, reliability metrics, and safety-critical or regulated-domain testing.
  • Preferred familiarity with DO-178, DO-160, MIL-STD, battery management systems, motor control, or power-electronics testing.

Benefits

  • Equity grant opportunities in addition to base salary.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability insurance, and basic life insurance.
  • Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.
  • Salaried roles receive flexible paid time off or vacation and 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • Base salary is localized according to employee work location, with a national United States range provided.

Salary: $89k - $131k/yr

DoorDash

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