Edge System Test Engineer - AI-Powered Automation

Portland Seed Fund; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Impact opportunity

Late Start Wednesday

Stock options

Medical & Dental premiums

401K matching

Job summary

Overwatch Imaging is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to own and evolve how we validate edge-deployed imaging systems across software, Jetson-based compute, and hardware-integrated sensor payloads—through automation, tooling, and AI-assisted testing.

You will design and execute tests across UI, APIs, backend, and Jetson-based systems, translate customer issues into reproducible test cases, and build automated regression coverage to reduce manual testing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in test automation and hardware/software validation.
• Experience with system, integration, or embedded testing.
• Comfortable working with software deployed to edge hardware (Jetson devices or similar).
• Strong systems thinking across software and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute tests across UI, APIs, backend, and Jetson-based systems.
• Translate customer issues into reproducible test cases.
• Define expected behavior, tolerances, and failure conditions.
• Identify edge cases and integration gaps.
• Build and maintain automated regression and integration tests.
• Develop tools for test orchestration, log collection, and failure detection.
• Validate software on Jetson devices and hardware interfaces.
• Investigate and reproduce customer-reported issues.
• Apply AI to improve validation, e.g., UI testing and log analysis.

Skills

Test automation

Hardware testing

Python

Linux

HIL testing

Playwright

AI-assisted testing

Tools

Jetson platforms

Job description

Overwatch Imaging is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to own and evolve how we validate edge-deployed imaging systems across software, Jetson-based compute, and hardware-integrated sensor payloads—through automation, tooling, and AI-assisted testing.

You will design and execute tests across UI, APIs, backend, and Jetson-based systems, translate customer issues into reproducible test cases, and build automated regression coverage to reduce manual testing.