Staff / Senior Firmware Test Engineer

About the role

Rockwell Automation is hiring a Staff / Senior Firmware Test Engineer for its global Power Motion Business (PMB) development organization at the Singapore campus. Embedded in the firmware development team, the engineer works with firmware architects, developers, product owners and system engineers throughout the product lifecycle, planning, designing, automating and executing firmware verification to ensure quality, reliability and compliance. The role reports to the Firmware Engineering Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Develop firmware test strategies, test plans and test cases based on product requirements and software architecture.
• Execute functional, integration, system, regression and performance testing of embedded firmware.
• Design, develop and maintain automated test frameworks and tools, and HIL, SIL and simulation-based test environments where applicable.
• Take part in requirements, architecture, design and code reviews, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
• Verify implementation against requirements and ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements, test cases and validation results.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and build test metrics, coverage reports and quality dashboards.
• Investigate firmware anomalies and field issues, and take part in risk assessments for critical functionality.
• Mentor junior engineers, improve test processes and work in Agile, Scrum or SAFe environments.

Required profile

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (software concentration) or equivalent.
• Typically 5+ years of experience in embedded software testing, firmware validation, test automation or firmware development.
• Experience with firmware debugging tools, automated test development, defect tracking and requirements management tools, and familiarity with Git, Agile/Scrum/SAFe, and version control.

Preferred skills

• Embedded systems, microcontrollers, RTOS and communication protocols.
• Firmware debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and protocol analyzers.
• Automated test solutions in Python, C/C++ or similar.

What we offer

• Hybrid work: onsite at least Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays unless there is a business reason to be out of the office.
• Mindfulness programs with a premium Calm membership, paid volunteer time off after 6 months, and employee donation matching.
• Employee Assistance Program, OnTrack wellbeing programs and a digital course library.