At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.
JOB SUMMARYThe Principle Test Development Engineer provides leadership simultaneously across several technology platforms of specialization within the Engineering Group. They are recognized thought leaders that focus on projects requiring advanced levels of multidisciplinary technical expertise and problem solving. The Principal Engineer is responsible for large scale activities including the discovery and evaluation of new technologies, development of related processes and procedures, equipment development, and the creation of educational materials that establish the baseline knowledge for the technology. They are strategic thinkers combining business acumen with technical breadth, and provide mentoring to Test Development staff for a variety of disciplines and best practices.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESSoftware development, deployment and maintenance responsibilities.- Responsible for operational and development support for the manufacturing test software deployed at production facilities
- Maintain existing code and develop new features.
- Enable a development framework that facilitates the creation of behavioral and high-level software design specifications.
- Establish and maintain best practices for high quality software development and sustaining activities.
Contribute and improve software build methodology, procedures, and environment.
JOB QUALIFICATIONSKNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS- Java
Spring Boot / Quarkus framework
JPA / Hibernate
JDBC
React
REST
Graal (native compilation)
Microservices
Event Driven Architecture(Message Bus, nats.io, Kafka etc)
Virtual Threads
Testing (unit, integration, mocking)
Docker
Docker Swarm/Kubernetes
Git
Deployment Strategies
Observability - Security
- Analytics
- AI
DB management and optimization
Experience in web development
Skilled in at least one other language.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS- BS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field. MS preferred.
- 10+ years experience in a software development/test capacity with enterprise server, storage or networking products.
Nice to have experience with AI and willingness to learn.
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