We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

Benefits

We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Location: Palo Alto, CA We are seeking a Lead Software Test Infrastructure Engineer to join our team, to facilitate the validation of automotive firmware and applications. As a Lead Software Test Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and scaling automated test frameworks and tools that enable efficient software testing.

You will also be responsible for providing technical guidance, mentoring junior engineers, and driving strategic direction for test infrastructure, CI/CD integration, and simulations. Your expertise in embedded systems and automotive industry knowledge will help ensure the quality and reliability of our software solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and evolution of V&V test infrastructure frameworks, focusing on scalability, reliability, and self-service capabilities. Architect and develop scalable test frameworks in Python, CI/CD integrations, and simulation environments for hardware (HIL) and software (SIL) test assets. Develop self-service automated tools and utilities that are extensible, configurable, and well-documented to enable engineers to test their own features and enhance test coverage and efficiency.

Mentor junior and senior engineers, provide technical direction, and guide complex engineering initiatives.

Requirements

, and integrate solutions.

-driven-test-development (RDTD), test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, and automation best practices. Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on testability and maintainability.

Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in Mechatronics/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Minimum of 5 years of experience in software testing, preferably with embedded systems. Strong programming skills in Python, Rust, or other relevant languages used in embedded software development and verification, with advanced experience with Pytest; familiarity with custom hooks, stages, and advanced configurations.

A strong strategic vision for software test infrastructure with the ability to lead a team and build it out and providing the support to bridge technical gaps. Deep understanding of test automation principles, CI/CD, and enterprise technologies. Demonstrated experience building test frameworks or utilities, with the ability to answer these questions: what did you build, how does it work, what are the design tradeoffs, how widely is it used, etc.

Strong experience debugging embedded systems at a module and/or system level, and the ability to triage nightly regression failures.

-driven test development, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, automated testing).