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We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO-replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.\nWe're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Manufacturing Software, to lead our vehicle integration test station infrastructure, interface with systems like firmware and the data platform, and build and lead our Manufacturing Test Station & Firmware team. This new team will own the software infrastructure required to build, validate, certify, update, and sustain products across our global manufacturing network, serving as the bridge between Product Firmware, Validation & Tools Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Operations, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.\nThis is a technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex system-level problems and working directly with manufacturing partners. You'll lead a small team of test station and firmware engineers while staying deeply involved in technical execution. It's a systems-first, factory-floor-up role: your mental model is the operator at the line, the test sequence running against a unit, and the data coming out the other side, along with everything that has to be designed, secured, and maintained to make that reliable at volume.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, build, and own the test station software stack: operator-facing UI, test sequence orchestration, hardware instrument control, and data logging\n\nTranslate EE-defined test procedures into automated, repeatable test sequences that factory operators can run with confidence\n\nDefine the interface contract between test stations and the production firmware image - what test modes the FW team must expose, what data the station needs, what the station can and cannot do\n\nDesign robust firmware update and recovery processes for production environments.\n\nOwn device provisioning, certification, and security workflows at the factory: secure boot verification, key provisioning, certificate injection, serial number assignment, and factory configuration locking\n\nPartner with our contract manufacturers in Asia to deploy test stations, qualify the line, and debug production issues on the floor\n\nTravel extensively - currently to Taiwan and Asia, as you'll be there regularly during NPI and ramp for new vehicle programs.\n\nEstablish test data pipelines, yield tracking, and reporting infrastructure, including statistical analysis, that gives the product and operations teams clear visibility into line health and process control\n\nDrive continuous improvement in test throughput, coverage, and first-pass yield using data you've collected and analyzed yourself\n\nTravel as needed - currently to Taiwan and Asia, as you'll be there regularly during NPI and ramp for new vehicle programs.\n\nDefine the interface contract with the firmware team: what test modes and diagnostic hooks the production FW image need to expose, and validate that they work correctly. Ideal candidates have sufficient embedded firmware expertise to submit direct changes as necessary to get unblocked.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nBS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field\n\n6+ years in manufacturing test systems, ATE, or production software, having built and shipped test stations that ran in production at volume\n\nFluency in Python (or equivalent scripting language) as your primary tool for test automation, instrument control, and data processing\n\nExperience with the full factory test lifecycle: DFT analysis, ICT/FCT development, EOL sequence design, fixture collaboration, and sustaining\n\nApplied statistical analysis of factory test data, working the numbers yourself to drive process decisions\n\nStrong systems design instincts, with the ability to architect a test station framework that scales across multiple products and sites, viewing ALSO's manufacturing network as a systems design problem\n\nAbility to translate EE-defined test procedures into precise, automatable test requirements, owning the requirements document, not just the implementation\n\nDirect, on-site experience working with contract manufacturers, having managed that interface professionally through a CM relationship\n\nOpen to travel to Taiwan\n\nClear English communication as the technical interface between Palo Alto and Taiwan; 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