Senior Embedded Test Engineer
Posted on January 21, 2026 (about 5 hours ago)
About Avive:
Avive Solutions, Inc. (https://avive.life) is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is focused on saving lives by improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest response.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States. Avive innovates AED technology combined with a first-of-its-kind software platform to enable quicker, more streamlined responses to SCA emergencies.
We build elegant, creative solutions to solve complex problems and aim for all cardiac arrest victims to have rapid access to life-saving defibrillation. Learn more: https://avive.life/careers/
About the Role:
This position plays a critical role in the testing of Avive’s embedded software from early design stages through commercialization, ensuring products comply with internal, regulatory, and customer requirements. The role focuses on providing best-in-class quality engineering practices through automation and efficient execution of testing tasks.
What You'll Do:
- Lead end-to-end testing between internal and external systems, connected hardware products, cloud-based databases, and applications.
- Create and maintain test plans, write automated and manual test cases, and execute verification tests based on software requirements and specifications.
- Triage defects from opening to closure: log reproduction steps, participate in impact analysis, recommend solutions, and execute regression tests. Find root causes and work with engineers to ensure closure.
- Develop and maintain an automation framework with dedicated hardware fixtures using Pytest.
- Create and deliver software project documentation, including IUVs, design verification test plans, test protocols, and test reports.
- Consider and implement unit and system level tests.
- Design, develop and test software tools that aid in development and manufacturing.
- Maintain focus on delivering the highest quality product to customers.
- Work closely with the firmware development team for a deep and nuanced understanding of implementation details.
Required Skills & Experience:
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or equivalent combination of relevant coursework and job-related experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years in a software test position for embedded systems.
- Ability to write, debug, and review Python for hardware-control libraries and automated tests.
- Experience with Python, C/C++, ARM CPUs, and Embedded Linux.
- Understanding of basic engineering lab equipment, electronics and firmware design.
- Experience using IDEs such as MPLab, Segger Embedded Studio, VS Code, or similar.
- Experience using Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
- Experience with wireless networking test protocols – Cellular, BLE, WiFi.
- Experience using Git, defect tracking in Jira, and participating in an Agile with scrum development process.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including technical writing; good documentation is a must.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
NOTE: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties or functions to be performed. Personnel are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
Anticipated salary range: $125,000 - $145,000
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
How to Apply
To apply for this role, use the online application link: https://jobs.lever.co/AviveSolutions/bd7b1d58-8d92-4b32-bddc-b3248a9a6819/apply
Additional Resources
Learn more about Avive and careers at the company: https://avive.life/careers/