Embedded Test SW Engineer Sr

Job ID: 2510598

Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US

Date Posted: 2025-10-07

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Embedded SW Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior level Software/Hardware Engineer for development and maintenance of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for various development/production products that SAIC develops, repairs, or produces at its Indianapolis, IN site.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITES:

• Maintain existing in-house ATE systems.
• Maintain/develop new tests as unit-under-test (UUT) requirements change.
• Maintain/develop ATE software, or propose changes/fixes, as OEM/COTS hardware changes or becomes obsolete.
• Assist or lead efforts in redesigning obsolete test systems.
• Advise leadership/supervisors on areas of improvement in the context of ATE systems to better test products.
• Work with and/or assist lab technicians in troubleshooting issues with ATE systems.
• Work with and/or assist lab technicians in repairing ATE systems.
• Assist or lead efforts in the design of new ATE systems.
• Synthesize project/customer requirements for new ATE systems into Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates on cost of equipment/labor.
• Analyze end product (UUT) test requirements and develop test set architecture to meet and test those requirements.
• Search out COTS products that meet or exceed test requirements.
• Develop self-testable test set architecture (ability to self-test itself to verify proper operation).

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION/SKILLS:

• Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience.
• Knowledge and experience in Perl, Python, and/or JavaScript.
• Demonstrated ability to write/read/debug National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW programs.
• Ability to use common lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, function generators, etc).
• Ability to use an electrical schematic to debug a hardware circuit using available lab equipment.
• Ability to digest a manual testing procedure into a fully/semi-automated process where possible.
• Advise on the testability of new product designs.
• Knowledge and experience with National Instruments (NI) PXI hardware.
• Knowledge and experience with controlling test equipment via GPIB, Ethernet (LXI), and other means.
• Active DoD security clearance (SECRET or higher), or ability to obtain a clearance.

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• NI LabVIEW certification (CLAD, CLD, or CLA).
• Familiarity with National Instruments Switch Executive and legacy SCXI switch topologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of using git for source code revision management.
• Knowledge and experience using Markdown for documentation in Wiki format or equivalent collaboration tools (e.g., Atlassian Confluence).
• Experience and knowledge of using UNIX/Linux environments and utilities (e.g., bash, make, awk, sed, grep, vi).
• Experience and knowledge of embedded systems software development using C or C++.
• Ability to read and interpret a circuit's function by its schematic and characterize its power requirements (current draw, voltage drops, power, etc).
• Ability to debug an embedded application using JTAG and the appropriate integrated development environment (IDE).
• Knowledge and experience using schematic capture software.
• Knowledge of commonly used communications protocols - MIL-STD-1553, RS-232/422/485, CAN, I2C, SPI, SSH, Ethernet.
• Knowledge of one or more microprocessor architectures - STM32, AVR, 8051, and/or similar
• Ability to work with minimal direction/supervision.
• Team player.