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# Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

- **Company:** Hire IT People
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Bug Tracking Systems, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Emulators, Ethernet, ISO/IEC 15504, TCP/IP, Gitlab-ci, Bug Reporting, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ats.hireitpeople.com/candidate/apply/41450-software-development-engineer-in-test-sdet

## About the Role

Education: The minimum qualification required for performing the above specialty occupation duties is a bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering or equivalent in a related field or a foreign equivalent is required closely related field with relevant experience.

## Description

* Focus on designing and implementing unit tests, validating complex networking stacks and protocol layers, and contributing to the quality and reliability of next- generation automotive compute platforms.
 * Develop and maintain automated unit test frameworks for HPC-based automotive platforms.
 * Work closely with software developers to ensure test coverage for critical modules, especially in communication stacks (e.g., Ethernet, TCP/IP, SOME/IP, DDS, etc.).
 * Analyse and validate behaviour of protocol stack implementations in embedded and real-time environments.
 * Implement test strategies aligned with ASPICE and ISO 26262 quality and safety standards.
 * Simulate and emulate high-throughput data flows to test performance and reliability under HPC conditions.
 * Debug failures, perform root-cause analysis, and log defects with clear reproduction steps.
 * Collaborate with system architects and platform teams to ensure scalability and integration readiness.
 * Contribute to Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).

Technical Skills: Unit testing frameworks, automated test frameworks, HPC-based automotive platforms, Ethernet, TCP/IP, SOME/IP, DDS, embedded systems, real-time environments, ASPICE, ISO 26262, simulation tools, emulation tools, debugging tools, defect tracking tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD.