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# Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Automation

- **Company:** Bloom Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $131,500.0 - $189,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Computer Engineering, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Reliability Engineering, Software Testing Automation Framework, Scripting
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5564651768

## About the Role

* 6+ years of experience working on automation for systems.
 * Proficiency in Python, scripting, build and test software/tools.
 * BS/MS in a technical field with data science, AI and ML competence
 + Desired technical degrees in computer engineering.
 * Experience with project management and independently manage multiple tasks while meeting deadlines and maintaining a strong attention to detail.
 * Passion for building automation environment.
 * Ability to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with hardware/software engineers, reliability/test engineers & data scientists to maintain reliability & validation test schedules.
 * Creative/Critical thinking skills.
 * A desire to continually upgrade technical knowledge.
 * Proven ability to design database schemas.
 * Attention to detail and self-motivated.

## Description

* Develop automated design failure modes & effects analysis (DFMEA) tool.
 * Automate reliability program plan for new products.
 * Develop expertise in automation and calculation of load following and cycling behavior at microgrid sites to correlate with system degradation
 * Develop a fault management knowledge database with search capability to optimize fault information.
 * Develop capability to track the effectiveness of product reliability to support system & field reliability decisions working together with other reliability engineers on the team.
 * Identify opportunities for automation within reliability & test processes.
 * Automate reliability & functional tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
 * Automate reliability modeling process in collaboration with cross functional teams.
 * Collaborate cross functionally to understand how automation can improve test workflow.
 * Gather requirements from hardware & software teams to develop the best automation solutions.
 * Reliability test equipment monitoring & reporting automation.
 * Develop automated control scripts to accelerate stress tests where applicable.
 * Build SW to automate & transform the current test & field infrastructure analytical data pipeline, calculating & reporting reliability on actual systems against allocated goals.
 * Install applications and databases relevant to automation. Gather requirements from cross functional teams to develop the best automation solutions.
 * Design, develop and document the reliability test automation framework.
 * Develop and expand existing Automation framework with open source tools.