Firmware Validation Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for embedded firmware development using GitLab CI/CD or similar platforms.

Automate firmware build, test, packaging, artifact management, versioning, and release workflows.

Create reusable pipeline jobs, scripts, containers, and development environments across firmware projects.

Improve management and reproducibility of embedded compilers, SDKs, toolchains, dependencies, and build environments.

Establish and improve Git-based development practices, including branching, merge workflows, release processes, tagging, and configuration management.

Integrate engineering platforms and workflows such as requirements management, project tracking, documentation, source control, testing, and release systems.

Develop integrations and automation between tools using APIs, scripts, web services, or similar technologies.

Improve traceability between requirements, source code changes, builds, test results, defects, firmware versions, and releases.

Work with Firmware Test Engineers to integrate automated tests, regression testing, and HIL environments into CI/CD pipelines.

Develop dashboards, reports, and automated workflows that provide visibility into build status, test results, release readiness, and engineering activities.

Identify manual or inconsistent development processes and implement scalable automation and standardised DevOps practices.

Cybersecurity & Compliance Responsibilities

Work with the Cybersecurity organisation to implement security requirements and development processes defined for Firmware projects.

Coordinate and track cybersecurity activities, action items, remediation tasks, and required engineering evidence across the Firmware team.

Integrate applicable security checks and controls into firmware development and CI/CD workflows.

Support vulnerability management, security findings, dependency tracking, software composition analysis, and remediation activities.

Help maintain traceability and evidence required to demonstrate implementation of cybersecurity requirements.

Support firmware teams with cybersecurity compliance activities related to applicable product security standards and regulations.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in firmware, embedded software, DevOps, build/release engineering, or a related embedded systems role.

Strong understanding of embedded software development workflows and firmware build environments.

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Experience with Git and Git-based development workflows.

Strong scripting or programming skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.

Experience with containers such as Docker and reproducible development/build environments.

Experience automating software build, test, integration, or release processes.

Experience integrating engineering tools or systems using REST APIs, scripts, or automation services.

Familiarity with software configuration management, versioning, artifacts, and release management.

Strong troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD.

Experience developing or supporting C/C++ embedded firmware projects.

Familiarity with embedded compilers, cross-compilation, SDKs, RTOS environments, and hardware-dependent build/test workflows.

Experience with engineering platforms such as Jama Connect, Smartsheet, Microsoft SharePoint, or equivalent tools.

Experience integrating automated firmware testing or Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems into CI/CD environments.

Familiarity with Typhoon HIL or similar platforms.

Experience with embedded product cybersecurity practices such as vulnerability management, SBOM, static analysis, dependency scanning, or security automation.

Familiarity with cybersecurity regulations or frameworks such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Familiarity with security assessment or vulnerability management platforms such as Mandiant or equivalent tools.

Experience with power electronics, UPS firmware, industrial control systems, energy systems, or other complex embedded products.

What Success Looks Like

Firmware builds and releases become reproducible, automated, and consistently managed.

CI/CD becomes a standard part of the firmware development workflow.

Engineering tools and development processes become increasingly integrated and automated.

Automated firmware testing and regression results are connected to development pipelines.

Firmware requirements, changes, builds, tests, and releases have improved end-to-end traceability.

Cybersecurity requirements and remediation activities are consistently tracked, implemented, and supported with appropriate evidence.

Manual engineering effort is reduced while development visibility and process consistency improve.