Embedded System Test Engineer
Originally posted 30 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on ensuring products are thoroughly tested, robust, scalable, and production-ready, specifically involving comprehensive system test plans for new features and products in both pre-silicon and post-silicon development phases.
What you'll do
- Build comprehensive system test plans for new features and products to ensure effective test coverage.
- Implement and execute tests across both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of development.
- Drive test strategy, planning, coordination, risk management, and communication of status and issues.
- Evolve the team’s test management system, ensuring test assets, coverage, execution, and reporting are organized, scalable, and effective.
- Manage and support test hardware setups and maintain an efficient, well-structured lab environment.
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify issues, triage defects, debug failures, and drive timely resolution.
What you'll need
- Strong experience in embedded systems and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
- Strong experience in software testing and test automation principles, including development of robust, maintainable automated test solutions.
- Strong experience with scripting in Python.
- Experience with a variety of MCU and DSP cores/processors.
- Experience developing and implementing embedded software tests on development boards.
- Experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analysers for bring-up and debugging.
Nice to have
- Experience with Jira, Git, and continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
- Experience with test management systems.
Skills: embedded systems, Real Time Operating Systems, test automation, Python, MCU, DSP cores
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First seen in our index 135 days ago, well above the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
779
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Median days since first seen
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$172k
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (779 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 779 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 14 | 6708 · 161 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 183 d | 55 d (−128 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $172k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded systems, Real Time Operating Systems, test automation, Python, MCU, DSP cores
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 121 open roles · median 64 d
- NVIDIA · 84 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 34 d
- Micron Technology · 52 open roles · median 77 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 37 open roles · median 35 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 29 open roles · median 60 d
How we counted: 779 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.