Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, Infotainment
at Rivianvw Tech
Palo Alto, California, remote, staff, full time, USD 1,86,000–2,55,750 / year, 8+ years
posted 01 Sept 2026
- CAN
- Shell
- Git
- Linux
- pytest
- Ethernet
- Appium
- QNX
- Python
- Android
- ADB
About the role
Join the Infotainment QA team, playing a crucial role in testing and ensuring the quality of infotainment firmware and functions across all stages of the development life-cycle — through automation, manual testing, or semi-automated methods, verifying software meets required standards and validates functionality. As a senior member of the team, you will lead testing projects end-to-end, drive them across the finish line, and contribute to building and enhancing automation tools and infrastructure to support scalability.
What you would do
- Lead test projects from planning through completion — defining scope, milestones, and success criteria, and driving execution across teams to ensure quality deliverables land on time.
- Develop and execute test plans and test cases for Infotainment Media applications — including media playback (Bluetooth, streaming services, USB), audio routing and focus handling, radio/tuner, and media session behavior across connectivity and power transitions.
- Identify, analyze, and document defects encountered during integration testing on sub-system HILs and in vehicle, and drive root-cause analysis and resolution to closure.
- Work closely with developers to resolve issues and ensure defects are effectively addressed, escalating and communicating risk clearly when timelines or quality are at stake.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and system architecture, and articulate test strategy, status, and results effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Plan and prioritize testing activities across multiple concurrent workstreams, context switching effectively between projects while keeping each on track.
- Serve as a technical lead and mentor within the QA team, setting best practices and raising the bar on testing quality.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives for testing processes and methodologies.
- Maintain test environments and ensure they're up-to-date.
- Design and implement automated integration tests for media use cases — such as source switching, playback controls, metadata validation, and audio quality checks — to improve test efficiency and enable automated testing early in the development cycle.
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