Senior Embedded Test Engineer (SDET) – AI-Enabled QA

MiniMed; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

MiniMed is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to verify embedded software for insulin-pump systems. You will develop automated test software, reusable libraries, and CI/CD integrations while executing risk-based testing across firmware, embedded apps, and hardware interfaces.

Responsibilities include designing tests for device workflows, performing functional and integration testing, and using HIL/SIL benches.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience testing embedded software, firmware, real-time systems, or hardware/software integrated products; medical-device experience preferred.
• Strong hands-on programming proficiency in Python and JavaScript, including code design, debugging, refactoring, use of version control, and development of reusable functions and libraries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, version, and maintain production-quality automated test scripts, test library functions, framework APIs, utilities, and test data using Python and JavaScript.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured test software for embedded-device workflows including device configuration, communication interfaces, logging, data capture, and result analysis.
• Integrate, troubleshoot, and maintain automated tests in source control and CI/CD pipelines, including test execution, quality gates, reporting, and failure diagnostics.
• Debug test scripts, framework libraries, CI/CD failures, and test-environment issues; identify root causes and implement durable corrective fixes.
• Apply AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve requirements analysis, test design, test-data generation, log analysis, defect triage, and test documentation.
• Develop and execute test strategies, test plans, protocols, test cases, and reports for embedded pump firmware.
• Analyze software and system requirements, architecture, interfaces, and risk controls to identify test conditions, gaps, and traceable verification evidence.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, reliability, fault-injection, and recovery testing of embedded device behavior.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

CI/CD

Embedded testing

AI-enabled testing

Debugging

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

HIL systems

Simulators

Test fixtures

Serial interfaces

Protocol analyzers

Lab equipment

Arduino/Raspberry Pi

Job description

MiniMed is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to verify embedded software for insulin-pump systems. You will develop automated test software, reusable libraries, and CI/CD integrations while executing risk-based testing across firmware, embedded apps, and hardware interfaces.

Responsibilities include designing tests for device workflows, performing functional and integration testing, and using HIL/SIL benches.