Director of Verification

Job Summary

At Moultrie, our cameras are in the field around the clock — in tree stands, on fence posts, deep in the woods — and our users trust them to work every single time. The Director of Verification is the person accountable for that promise. This is a senior technical leadership role with two core functions: a firmware verification organization responsible for validating every major camera subsystem before it ships, and a fleet management group responsible for monitoring the health of cameras already in the field and catching defects before users feel them.

Job Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Direction

• Lead and develop firmware verification and fleet management teams
• Set priorities, standards, and clear direction tied to product quality
• Build an automation-first verification culture
• Represent verification in design/program reviews
• Own release risk decisions and tradeoffs
• Align verification milestones with development phases

• Firmware Verification — Camera Subsystems

• Own end-to-end verification across subsystems with focus on:
• Functional: Ensures systems behave correctly
• Performance: Validates latency, power, image quality, detection range
• Stability: Confirms reliability over time and edge cases
• Key areas:
• Cellular connectivity (LTE-M/NB-IoT, MQTT, OTA reliability)
• Detection (PIR performance, false triggers, AI models)
• Illumination (LED, flash timing, low-light performance)
• Image quality (resolution, exposure, consistency)
• Power consumption (across all operating modes)
• Reliability (long-duration testing and fault recovery)

• Test Automation & Coverage Expansion

• Drive automation of all repeatable tests
• Translate design changes into updated test plans
• Integrate verification into CI pipelines (HIL testing, automation, reporting)
• Track and expand test coverage across subsystems
• Ensure test reliability and maintainability

• Field Test Verification

• Lead real-world validation across environments and use cases
• Complement lab testing with field insights
• Feed field failures back into automated test coverage
• Align field validation with release milestones

• Fleet Management

• Monitor deployed devices to detect issues before users do
• Build dashboards and alerting for system health
• Define escalation and response protocols
• Feed field issues directly into verification improvements
• Maintain a closed-loop feedback system between field and pre-release testing
• Report fleet health trends and risks to leadership

• Process & Documentation

• Standardize verification plans, test reports, and defect tracking
• Define metrics for verification and fleet health
• Continuously improve processes based on learnings

Job Requirements

• What You Bring:

• 12+ years of experience in firmware verification, systems test engineering, or a related discipline for connected hardware or consumer electronics products.
• 4+ years directly leading verification or test engineering teams, including senior individual contributors and sub-teams with distinct functional ownership. Experience managing both a pre-release verification function and a post-release monitoring or sustaining function is a strong signal.
• Deep technical understanding of firmware verification across multiple subsystems — enough to evaluate test plans, identify coverage gaps, challenge the team’s approach, and recognize when a result doesn’t tell the full story.
• Hands-on experience building or scaling test automation programs for embedded or firmware-based products, including CI pipeline integration and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
• Proven track record of building the process that translates design changes into updated verification plans — and holding teams accountable to it across a full development program.
• Experience with cellular IoT firmware verification is a strong plus — particularly LTE-M/NB-IoT, MQTT, retry logic, and connectivity edge cases.
• Experience owning verification milestones within a structured hardware development program (EVT → DVT → PVT → MP), including phase gate ownership, open issue tracking, and release readiness assessment.
• Familiarity with fleet monitoring concepts for connected devices — including telemetry analysis, anomaly detection, and the operational discipline of managing a large deployed device population.
• Clear, direct communicator who translates verification risk into decisions at the program and executive level, and gives the team unambiguous direction.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Bonus Points:

• Background in one or more of Moultrie’s core subsystem domains: PIR/detection systems, cellular connectivity, image quality, or low-power embedded design.
• Experience building or operating fleet monitoring infrastructure for IoT or connected hardware products at scale.
• Familiarity with cellular certification processes — FCC, PTCRB, carrier acceptance — and the verification work that supports them.
• Experience managing verification through hardware revisions and component changes in a production product, including re-verification scoping and execution.
• Familiarity with DFMEA, PFMEA, or other structured risk management frameworks applied to hardware and firmware verification.