Staff Automation Engineer, SPAN

• Demonstrable proficiency building reliable tools and services in Python
• Able to read and reason about C++, Rust, TypeScript, or similar. Not your daily language, but enough to follow a bug across a boundary
• Experience with hardware-adjacent software: software that controls, monitors, or ingests data from physical devices or instruments
• Experience owning internal platform infrastructure where your users are other engineers and your systems are in the critical path
• Comfortable standing up new tooling from scratch and retiring it when needs change
• Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure, particularly pipelines that run on physical hardware
• Understanding of hardware-in-the-loop testing, reliability testing, and certification testing methodologies
• Experience managing fleets of physical test cells or lab infrastructure (Ansible, AWX, or similar)
• Experience with embedded systems or firmware testing (CAN bus, SWD debugging, firmware update flows)
• Experience with time-series data: ingestion, storage, and querying of telemetry
• Experience with PostgreSQL, S3/AWS
• Experience building reporting dashboards for engineering or leadership audiences
• Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks
• Experience with lab instrumentation control. Power analyzers, load simulators, signal generators, relay boards
• Experience designing automated test rigs or test cells from requirements through physical buildout to software integration

Desirable

• As a Staff Automation Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products through a combination of automated and manual testing methodologies
• This is a high impact role that will work closely with SPAN’s internal Software, Device Software, Hardware Engineering, Systems, and QA teams
• Co-design test automation infrastructure with Systems and Test Infrastructure. Automation provides the platform and drivers; partner teams write the tests
• Diagnose automated test failures across firmware, hardware, and test infrastructure
• Help manage and grow a fleet of 50+ hardware test rigs across offices
• Monitor hardware and software infrastructure health
• You will take architectural ownership of one or more of the team's critical systems. Examples of where you might focus:
• Hardware-in-the-loop test execution: on-premise orchestration of test sequences on physical hardware, integrated into CI/CD for PR gating and release qualification
• Test data pipeline: telemetry ingestion from rigs, structured storage in PostgreSQL, reporting dashboards for release readiness and reliability
• Test execution framework: instrument driver library, sequence engine, and the gRPC services that tie rigs together
• The specific focus depends on your strengths and the team's needs at the time you join