Space-Grade 5G Core Automation Engineer

E-Space; Saratoga (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Health benefits

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Legal services (US)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

E-Space in Saratoga, CA is seeking a Communications Systems Automation engineer to build automated test infrastructure for the 5G Core stack across virtualized and physical targets. You will design frameworks, write Python tests, and develop tools for packet capture and protocol analysis, working with software, platform, and RF engineers to validate builds before space.

Qualifications include a BS/MS in Electrical/CS, 5+ years in test automation for wireless or embedded systems, strong Python,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of software test automation experience in wireless, networking, or embedded systems.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Strong Linux skills and Linux networking experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and integrating automated test suites into pipelines.
• Experience with virtualized infrastructure like VMWare or Proxmox.
• Strong defect tracking and reporting discipline using Jira or equivalent tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a scalable test automation framework for 5G Core Network Functions across both virtualized and physical deployment targets.
• Develop Python-based test scripts and harnesses covering functional, regression, integration, and performance scenarios.
• Develop tooling for automated packet capture and protocol-level analysis to validate 5G stack behavior across interfaces.
• Extend automation to cover physical hardware environments, including hardware-in-the-loop setups with embedded radio hardware.
• Track, reproduce, and verify defects through their full lifecycle in Jira with clear, reproducible failure descriptions.
• Collaborate with software, platform, and systems engineers to ensure testability is designed into new features from the outset.

Skills

Python

Linux

CI/CD

VMware/Proxmox

Jira

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE/CS

Tools

VMware/Proxmox

Job description

E-Space in Saratoga, CA is seeking a Communications Systems Automation engineer to build automated test infrastructure for the 5G Core stack across virtualized and physical targets. You will design frameworks, write Python tests, and develop tools for packet capture and protocol analysis, working with software, platform, and RF engineers to validate builds before space.

Qualifications include a BS/MS in Electrical/CS, 5+ years in test automation for wireless or embedded systems, strong Python,