Manager, Software Core Firmware Validation

Team: Software Platforms and Product

Location: San Diego, CA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Salary:

In this role, you will:

• Lead a group of component verification and validation engineers and be responsible for the team’s strategy, productivity, and impact within SW Core as well as Zoox as a whole

• Provide discipline and rigor in the application of industry best practices around test design, test development, test automation, defect management, and reporting

• Refine, propagate, and promote the best practices of firmware validation teams, elevating the firmware validation activities across Zoox

• Coaching and career development, enabling team members to grow individually and in their ability to execute on complex V&V activities together

• Review and refine software requirements in the interest of testability

• Manage the transition between component-level V&V and vehicle-level V&V

Qualifications

• B.S or higher in Automotive, Aerospace, Robotics, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science or Systems Engineering.
• 8+ years with 2+ years of leading direct reports

• Experience leading the testing and release management of high-assurance software

• Experience with software-defined vehicle architecture

• Experience with project, task, and performance management of a team of test engineers

• Experience tackling complex configuration management challenges

• Experience with software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing strategies

Bonus Qualifications

• C++ expertise

• Automotive-centric software frameworks (e.g. AUTOSAR), development/process standards (e.g. MISRA, ASPICE) and physical interfaces/protocols (Automotive Ethernet, CAN bus, UDS/DoIP/DoCAN)

• Validation of bootloaders, secure boot, secure firmware update (e.g. OTA)

• Validation of embedded real-time and POSIX operating systems and applications built upon them