Senior QA Engineer Embedded Hardware

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Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer more productive and more profitable. For the first time ever safety operations and finance teams can manage their drivers vehicles equipment and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100000 customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics construction energy field service manufacturing agriculture food and beverage retail and the public sector.

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We are looking for a Senior QA Embedded Engineer to join our team full-time in a US remote capacity. This role is key to ensuring the quality reliability and performance of our embedded products used across Motives product ecosystem. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing in embedded environments and a solid understanding of hardware-software interaction. You will help validate system behavior across real-world scenarios contributing directly to customer-impacting features.

What Youll Do:

• Design develop and execute test plans and cases for embedded hardware/software systems.
• Perform both manual and automated testing across firmware mobile and web integrations.
• Collaborate closely with development product and hardware teams to understand technical requirements and use cases.
• Create and maintain automation frameworks for embedded devices.
• Conduct integration regression and system-level tests across key features (ELD GPS AI camera OBD CAN etc.).
• Report track and validate defects using tools like JIRA.
• Participate in code and test reviews; provide QA insights during product design and sprint planning.
• Test firmware interactions with mobile apps web dashboards and Motives platform.
• Debug embedded issues using tools such as serial consoles CAN analyzers etc.
• Contribute to documentation process improvements and knowledge sharing across the QA organization.

What Were Looking For:

• Bachelors or Masters in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
• 3 years of experience in embedded QA ideally in fleet automotive or IoT systems.
• Experience in both manual and automated QA for embedded platforms.
• Strong knowledge of embedded architectures and real-time systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C/C for test scripting or automation.
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN OBD-II UART BLE and Wi-Fi.
• Hands-on experience with hardware testing tools and diagnostics is a plus.
• Prior exposure to Agile development CI/CD workflows and QA best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong ownership and accountability.

Nice to Have:

• Experience testing AI camera systems or telematics devices.
• Knowledge of GPS accelerometer data and vehicle integration.
• Exposure to test management tools (e.g. TestRail) and analytics platforms (e.g. Redash)

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