Senior Principal AI Test Automation Architect

advantestcareers; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest is seeking a Senior Principal AI Test Automation Engineer to design and deliver reliable automation for complex engineering and production test environments.

You will build repeatable systems that validate, execute, monitor, and diagnose technical workloads across laboratory and production environments. This role blends advanced test engineering with modern software architecture and requires hands‑on leadership across teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive automation experience for advanced test or measurement systems.
• Strong digital and mixed-signal test-engineering experience.
• Proven ownership of CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Understanding of test programs, instruments, limits, and result data.
• Strong Python and software-architecture skills.
• Experience integrating software with hardware and lab environments.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions and solve complex problems at Senior Principal level.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Architect production‑grade test automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate build, validation, execution, artifact collection, analysis, and release gating.
• Integrate AI‑generated recommendations into engineered workflows.
• Define validation and approval gates before automated actions interact with hardware.
• Build interfaces between AI systems, test software, instruments, and data services.
• Develop failure classification, diagnostics, recovery, and escalation processes.
• Create reproducible environments using containers and versioned configurations.
• Establish observability, regression testing, and evidence‑based release criteria.
• Mentor engineers and set technical standards for automation and production readiness.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Test automation

Software architecture

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML integration

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Containers

Version control

APIs

Structured schemas

Job description

Advantest is seeking a Senior Principal AI Test Automation Engineer to design and deliver reliable automation for complex engineering and production test environments.

You will build repeatable systems that validate, execute, monitor, and diagnose technical workloads across laboratory and production environments. This role blends advanced test engineering with modern software architecture and requires hands‑on leadership across teams.