ALTEN Technology USA
Automotive Firmware Validation Engineer
Foster City, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
- Workplace: On-Site, 5 days Location: Foster City, CA Our team is seeking a hands-on Automotive Firmware Validation Engineer to join the Firmware - Connectivity and Audio team.
- This is a validation-first role focused on manual feature testing, growing test content, closing coverage gaps, root-causing defects, and triaging field problems across in-cabin connected experiences.
Responsibilities
- Field issue triage: Own first-line triage for Audio and Streaming feature fleet issues - reproduce in lab, narrow scope, and drive issues to closure in partnership with fleet support, diagnostics, and firmware teams.
- Defect lifecycle: Manage defects end-to-end in JIRA - clear reproduction steps, attached logs, severity rationale, fix verification, and regression follow-up.
- Test infrastructure: Maintain test benches, in-vehicle rigs, and diagnostic setups so they stay release-ready.
- Cross-functional communication: Partner with firmware leads, product managers, and integration partners to align on feature readiness and defect priority.
- Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace.
Requirements
- 8+ years in a hands-on validation/QA engineering role on firmware or embedded products.
- Connectivity background (any flavor): Hands-on validation experience in at least one connectivity domain - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular (LTE/5G), GNSS, or vehicle networking.
- Field triage experience: Track record of reproducing and isolating defects reported from production/field environments.
- Strong defect-tracking discipline (JIRA/Confluence) and experience in agile release cycles.
- Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
- All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with in-cabin entertainment and/or media casting frameworks.
- Bluetooth stack validation (pairing, A2DP/HFP/AVRCP, interop).
- Background and experience in wireless connectivity technologies.
- Prior exposure to autonomous-vehicle or robotaxi fleet environments.
Compensation
- $130,000 - 150,000
- The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
Benefits
- Coverage gap closure: Identify untested or under-tested paths in the existing suites and systematically add coverage
- track coverage health for each feature track.
- We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life-from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles.
- With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
- When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
Company info
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
- As part of the global ALTEN Group-57,000+ engineers in 30 countries-we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
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