Test Engineer 4

We are looking for Test Engineer 4 for our client in Austin, TX.

Job Title: Test Engineer 4

Job Location: Austin, TX

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in firmware/software development, validation, or test development.
• Hands-on experience with SoC or system-level bring-up and low-level debugging.
• Strong foundation in computer architecture and enterprise server platform features.
• Practical experience writing test code and tools in C and/or C++, and scripting in Python, Perl, or Bash.
• Demonstrated experience building or deploying AI applications, specifically autonomous agents, LLM-backed tools, or RAG architectures applied to engineering or testing pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with firmware architects and validation teams to define platform-level test strategies and coverage goals.
• Define and implement platform-level, end-to-end test flows that validate firmware functionality across boot and runtime.
• Design and implement automation-friendly regression tests and test harnesses that integrate with CI.
• Conduct test execution, debug issues (firmware, platform, infrastructure, automation), and collaborate with developers to drive timely defect resolution.
• Contribute to test strategy and coverage analysis, with emphasis on system-level feature interactions and cross-domain dependencies.
• Enhance test infrastructure to improve coverage, execution efficiency, and reporting/triage workflows.
• Architect, build, and deploy agentic AI workflows and autonomous QA agents to automate complex tasks such as end-to-end test case generation, intelligent regression scoping, and predictive failure analysis.

Nice to Have:

• Experience or knowledge in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable (with emphasis on system/firmware development or testability):.
• BIOS concepts (e.g., ACPI, SMBIOS tables).
• RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) features and validation.
• Memory subsystem validation (DDR, persistent memory, error injection, etc.).
• Power management and telemetry.
• Platform security features (TPM, SPDM, Secure Boot, RoT-based attestation, etc.).
• Virtualization and firmware enablement (ACPI, SR-IOV, etc.).
• High-speed I/O validation (PCIe, CXL).
• Sideband protocols (MCTP, SPDM, PLDM, RDE, etc.).

Qualification And Education:

• Bachelor s or master s degree in related discipline preferred.