Embedded Software QA Engineer

North Reading, MA

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Onsite

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Contract

|Job ID 70885|Posted Jul 2, 2025
JOB DESCRIPTION
Embedded QA Engineer

Amazon is seeking an individual to hold hardware and firmware development to the highest standards. Work to qualify and test our first run custom hardware from our Blink cameras, doorbells, and accessory product lines to help confirm operation and quality at the expected levels. This role will require a hands on approach with hardware, test equipment and the ability to develop test scripts. Hands on quality assurance puts you along side the hardware, firmware and system engineers to test the performance of our products. You will strategize and identify areas that would benefit from automated testing and work to develop those tests. Working closely with the system engineer to develop and target testing in critical areas to flush out issues early in the development process.

You will apply your expertise in C/C++ and Python firmware development as well as system design with constrained resources (MIPS, RAM, FLASH, I/O). Hardware experience is key to this role. The Systems SDET will need the ability to read and analyze electrical schematics, debug system performance, and expertise in diagnostic tools, and driver sources.

Key job responsibilities

Effectively collaborate with engineers to qualify initial development of Blink products in a hardware focused BSP team
Collaborate with Systems Engineer to develop tests for investigations and bring-up
Use bench test equipment to qualify hardware, interfaces, and firmware is operating to the highest standards
Work with developers to test completion of tickets
Write test cases that allows repeatable test flows to verify changes easily
Create quality test plans and monitor quality of components and services that can feed into other development and QA teams
Collaborate and contribute to embedded automation tasks

The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of:

Board Support Packages
Debug tools and probes (JTAG)
Communication Buses (UART, I2C, SPI, etc.)
SoC and Embedded CPU architecture
Embedded Linux and/or FreeRTOS
Security technologies and protocols

A day in the life
A typical day will bring working with hardware and firmware components to test the development of the bring up engineers while having an eye for issues in the overall integrity and performance. Using bench test equipment to exercise and diagnose operation and performance of hardware/firmware. Document results and review with leaders. Work with in our larger organization testing infrastructure when appropriate and create and document test strategy.

About the team
You will be part of the Ring Solutions Systems team, which is a larger systems team focused on Ring Alarm, Smart Lighting and Blink devices.
The team works in a Kanban style Agile development and very closely with Hardware.
Your team will be specifically focused on Blink development but have counterparts on the Ring side for consultation and knowledge sharing.

At Blink we combine our startup culture with the resources and scale of Amazon to create a vibrant, fun, and rewarding place to work.

Basic qualifications

4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
Experience in manual testing
Experience in automation testing
Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
2+ years of experience using tools like oscilloscopes, advanced digital multi-meters, power analyzers
Experience reading schematics

Preferred qualifications

Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium
Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality
3+ years of experience testing custom developed hardware
Experience testing wireless radios

 
Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. 

We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.

In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us.

All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.