Sesame
Hardware Test Automation Engineer
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
PythoniOSAndroidCI/CDSignal ProcessingSensorsCypressTest Automation
About the role
- Your metrics will gate releases and back the performance story we tell investors and customers.
- This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role at the firmware/wireless/hardware boundary, on a small team that moves fast.
- Stand up an automated test framework driven from a programmable Bluetooth central (Android, iOS, or a Pi-based rig, whatever fits), firmware-first then integration-first
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own an automated hardware test rig integrated with CI/CD (build → flash → run → report) for the Cypress device.
- Implement throughput/bandwidth, connectivity stress tests (e.g., iPerf, A2DP/AVRCP), including sustained-throughput, connection-stability/range testing, and simulated degraded-connectivity scenarios.
- Build API-level tests (easier to automate than full end-to-end iOS flows) covering throughput, sustained load, and crash detection.
- Build and maintain a live performance & stress dashboard with defined safety thresholds and target ("high-achieving") benchmarks
- Develop diagnostic tooling and support automated bug triage for hardware/firmware issues.
- Partner with firmware (and the QA coordinator) to define what is automated vs. manual, API vs. integrated, and which platform drives the rig.
- Build and maintain a live performance & stress dashboard with defined safety thresholds and target ("high-achieving") benchmarks; automatically flag regressions.
- You'll design and own an automated test rig, a rack of devices wired into our CI/CD pipeline that, on every firmware change, builds, flashes, runs the test suite, and generates reports automatically.
- Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human.
Requirements
- Experience defining test plans, metrics, and pass/fail thresholds from real data.
- Comfort operating in an early-stage, prototype hardware environment with limited units and evolving specs.
Nice to have
- Experience owning an automation testbed for a shipping consumer hardware product (wearables, audio devices, smart cameras, IoT).
- Performance instrumentation experience: latency, sustained-throughput, IPC/cycle-count, and thread/core-level tracing on embedded/multi-core platforms.
- Familiarity with Qualcomm chipsets and tooling (e.g., DSP framework, PyDebug) and the realities of vendor bug turnaround.
- Experience automating from a programmable Bluetooth central: Android, iOS, a Pi-based rig, or similar
- Battery and thermal test methodology.
- Experience with sensor/IMU testing and creative physical test setups for connectivity/range.
- Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
- We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more.
Compensation
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
- Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.
- With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives.
- support ad hoc/cherry-picked test runs when the team needs targeted coverage.
Company info
- We're standing up our hardware quality function from the ground up, and we're looking for our first dedicated Hardware Test Automation Engineer to build the automation backbone for the program.
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