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Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.\nToday, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk\nAbout the role\nAdvanced Navigation enters a new phase of Growth and International expansion. The Software Platforms team is on a mission to develop software to ensure that our products are the most reliable, high performance navigation products in the world.\nAs a Senior Embedded Software Verification Engineer you will be instrumental in realising this ambition, developing software to solve real world problems with real world impact.\nWhat you'll do\nEnsure the automated testing provides fast, reliable and valuable feedback to developers \nUnderstand our products and customer use cases to lead the creation of high-value tests \nDesign, implement and maintain software simulation and emulation environments and models to enable automated embedded software verification, including scenario, edge-case and fault-injection testing. \nIntegrate simulation and emulators with Pytest, GitLab CI and HITL, validating simulation behaviour against real hardware and continuously improving simulation fidelity and test coverage. \nDevelop, review and maintain automated tests (in Python) \nEstablish then enhance automated Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) tests with INS hardware \nEvolve and improve GitLab CI pipelines. 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