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Firmware QA Engineer (Embedded Test Engineer)
Ember Life Sciences Inc.
Westlake Village, USA
Full-time
Mid
Onsite
USD 100000-120000 yearly / year
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Role Overview
Ember Life Sciences is seeking a Firmware QA Engineer to improve reliability across our IoT-enabled cold chain logistics platform serving healthcare and pharmaceutical customers.
This role is firmware-focused and hands-on.
You will spend significant time running manual tests on real hardware, reproducing issues, collecting logs, and performing ship testing (pre-deployment verification) to ensure devices behave correctly before they go out to customers.
You will work closely with firmware and hardware engineering, and coordinate with backend and operations as needed to validate end-to-end behavior.
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Job Summary
Ember Life Sciences is seeking a Firmware QA Engineer to improve reliability across our IoT-enabled cold chain logistics platform serving healthcare and pharmaceutical customers.
This role is firmware-focused and hands-on.
You will spend significant time running manual tests on real hardware, reproducing issues, collecting logs, and performing ship testing (pre-deployment verification) to ensure devices behave correctly before they go out to customers.
You will work closely with firmware and hardware engineering, and coordinate with backend and operations as needed to validate end-to-end behavior.
Responsibilities
- Validate firmware releases on hardware against defined scope and acceptance criteria
- Execute manual regression testing across core device behaviors (power, sensors, charging, connectivity, fault recovery)
- Perform ship testing and pre-deployment verification, including device setup, configuration checks, and release readiness validation for outgoing units
- Run dedicated firmware test passes for each release (smoke, regression, and targeted suites) and report clear pass/fail results
- Validate GPS functionality and firmware behavior, including time to first fix, accuracy checks, signal loss and recovery, and low-signal edge cases
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