Staff OTA Validation & Automation Engineer

ALSO.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

One Medical membership

Progyny fertility benefits

Job summary

ALSO. is seeking a Staff Embedded Validation & Tools Engineer - OTA to own validation for firmware and software update delivery across our fleet of embedded devices.

You will design and run validation programs to ensure updates are robust, secure, and reliable in real-world conditions, collaborating with firmware, release, QA, and cloud teams. You will build scalable testbeds, automate end-to-end OTA pipelines, and rigorously test bootloaders, agents, and update formats, driving rapid issue

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years validating embedded devices and firmware updates (OTA).
• Strong Python and C/C++ skills for embedded debugging.
• CI pipelines experience (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and execute OTA validation plans across device families and release types.
• Build, manage, and scale automated testbeds and harnesses for regression, integration, and stress testing.
• Automate end-to-end OTA pipelines, including signing, staging, rollout, and post-update verification.
• Validate update mechanisms and components (bootloader, update agent, partitions, recovery modes).
• Test resilience under intermittent networks, high latency, power interruptions, and storage constraints.
• Analyze logs, packet captures, and telemetry to diagnose failures; perform root cause analysis.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Embedded Linux

CI pipelines

HW debugging

Networking protocols

Debugging & problem-solving

Communication skills

Test automation

Jenkins/GitLab CI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Wireshark

QEMU

Docker

Job description

ALSO. is seeking a Staff Embedded Validation & Tools Engineer - OTA to own validation for firmware and software update delivery across our fleet of embedded devices.

You will design and run validation programs to ensure updates are robust, secure, and reliable in real-world conditions, collaborating with firmware, release, QA, and cloud teams. You will build scalable testbeds, automate end-to-end OTA pipelines, and rigorously test bootloaders, agents, and update formats, driving rapid issue