Senior Manager, QA Engineering – Hardware & Firmware

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Actively participate in and drive end-to-end solution testing using real hardware/firmware infrastructure, spending hands-on time conducting functional and non-functional testing solutions

• Personally develop, review, and refine comprehensive QA test plans covering functional, integration, and system-level testing scenarios for both firmware and hardware layers

• Design and execute black-box and grey-box testing to validate functional requirements, uncover edge cases, and perform deep-level debugging of issues

• Develop and contribute to test automation frameworks, scripts, and infrastructure; actively code automation solutions for complex testing scenarios

• Lead and mentor a Solutions QA team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, quality ownership, and continuous improvement

• Establish and enforce quality gates and acceptance criteria aligned with product requirements, risk analysis, and business objectives

• Collaborate daily with engineering and design teams to understand implementation details, identify testability challenges, and coordinate comprehensive testing strategies

• Plan, track, and manage QA tasks and team workload, ensuring realistic timelines and resource optimization while maintaining hands-on involvement

• Conduct regular status reporting to leadership with quality metrics, test coverage analysis, identified risks, and mitigation strategies

• Identify and implement process improvements and enhanced methodologies to strengthen testing effectiveness and efficiency

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on QA engineering experience, with 5+ years specifically in hardware or firmware/embedded systems testing, plus team leadership experience

• Extensive hands-on experience with firmware and embedded systems testing, including driver-level, protocol-level, and system integration testing

• Demonstrated expertise in writing and executing functional and non-functional test cases, test automation scripts, and test frameworks

• Strong practical experience with black-box and grey-box testing methodologies, including hardware debugging and root cause analysis

• Extensive hands-on experience conducting end-to-end solution testing using real hardware infrastructure and test benches (not simulation-only environments)

• Proven track record of successfully leading and growing high-performing QA teams while maintaining strong technical contributions

• Demonstrated experience in building AI tools for creating test-cases from requirements specification, and test execution using orchestration

• Proficiency in test automation languages/tools (e.g., Python, C, Tcl, SystemVerilog) with demonstrated ability to develop sophisticated test frameworks

• Strong project management skills, process ownership mindset, and excellent communication abilities

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in hardware testing environments

• Knowledge of debugging tools and techniques for embedded systems and hardware validation

• Experience with version control systems and test management tools

• Understanding of formal verification and simulation-based validation

• Agile/Scrum methodology experience

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.