Senior Manager, Software Test & Validation

Required

• Education & Experience: MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or BS with equivalent elite depth), combined with 10+ years of industry experience in software validation, HIL simulation, manufacturing test, and fleet reliability analytics for complex hardware systems, and 5+ years leading technical engineering teams.
• SIL/HIL & Power Systems Mastery: Proven track record architecting real-time simulation environments (Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT, or dSPACE) for both high-frequency power electronics converters and distributed system/site controllers.
• Manufacturing & Commissioning Software: Demonstrated experience building and deploying automated factory test software (ICT/FCT/EOL), hardware bring-up utilities, and field commissioning frameworks across multiple hardware product lifecycles.
• Predictive Analytics & Software Toolchain: Expert-level proficiency in Python (Pytest, Pandas, SciPy, time-series and predictive modeling stacks) for test automation and fleet prognostics, alongside solid working fluency in Rust and C/C++ to inspect, instrument, and debug low-level firmware and application codebases.
• Data Infrastructure & DevOps: Strong experience designing automated CI/CD pipelines for hardware-in-the-loop targets, containerization (Docker), and scalable time-series telemetry architectures for fleet health monitoring and predictive maintenance.
• Hardware & Lab Fluency: Deep comfort operating in high-voltage power electronics lab environments, utilizing oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and industrial communication protocols (CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, Modbus, SPI) to isolate elusive hardware-software interactions.
• Bonus Qualifications
• Experience validating grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), utility-interactive inverters, or mixed-chemistry/second-life EV battery installations against UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547 standards.
• Proven experience building prognostic algorithms that correlate factory EOL baseline signatures with in-field operational telemetry to predict remaining useful life (RUL) of power electronics or energy storage components.
• Track record of designing custom automated fault-injection hardware and custom breakout PCB interfaces for multi-rack HIL testbeds.
• In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.
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