Senior HIL Engineer - Embedded Linux & CI

Showcify, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday

Job summary

Skydio is seeking an experienced embedded HIL test framework lead to own the Python test framework, its CI integration, and the fleet of hardware test stations. You will set direction and ensure reliability as product and test scope grows, making it easy for teams to add tests.

You will collaborate with firmware, platform and product teams to translate validation needs into automated tests, and develop new use cases to extend hardware validation across more teams.

Qualifications

• Strong Python, with clean, well-tested code and sensible abstraction boundaries.
• Software engineering experience, including building or owning test or CI infrastructure.
• Solid Linux systems skills: networking, USB/udev, systemd, Docker, shell.
• Hands-on embedded Linux experience: flashing, bootloaders and recovery modes, serial consoles, debugging boards that don't boot.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap of the HIL test framework and its integration with CI.
• Design and build new test stations and fixtures and bring new products onto the HIL.
• Partner with firmware, platform and product teams to turn their validation needs into reliable automated tests.
• Develop new critical use cases to expand hardware validation and development to more broad teams.
• Triage failing runs, separate infrastructure problems from product regressions, and route real bugs to the right team.

Skills

Python

CI infrastructure

Embedded Linux

Debugging

Communication

Hardware bring-up

FAA Part 107

Tools

Docker

systemd

USB/udev

Serial consoles

Job description

Skydio is seeking an experienced embedded HIL test framework lead to own the Python test framework, its CI integration, and the fleet of hardware test stations. You will set direction and ensure reliability as product and test scope grows, making it easy for teams to add tests.

You will collaborate with firmware, platform and product teams to translate validation needs into automated tests, and develop new use cases to extend hardware validation across more teams.