Hardware Test Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a strong hardware infrastructure engineer to develop and scale ATLAS: Efficient’s critical hardware regression testing and performance profiling infrastructure. ATLAS supports automated benchmarking and validation of both our company's products and competitor hardware, providing essential data that drives engineering and product decisions. This role requires a unique set of skills that span both embedded software development as well as typical cloud compute platforms. The ideal candidate must be a full-stack infrastructure engineer who is equally comfortable writing Go services, managing Kubernetes environments, debugging low-level test programs, and working with a wide variety of embedded hardware such as FPGA, Ambiq, Apollo, PIC32 and Efficient E1.

Responsibilities

• Regression Testing & Performance Profiling Infrastructure: Build and maintain infrastructure for automated benchmarking and validation of hardware.
• Embedded Hardware Deployment, Maintenance & Troubleshooting: Install new embedded hardware platforms, manage deployed hardware, and perform debug and failure analysis of hardware issues.
• Test Program Development: Write, port, and maintain low-level C/C++ test programs that run on a diverse set of hardware targets to measure performance, power, and functional behavior.
• Reliability & Observability: Monitor system health, triage failures, perform root-cause analysis, and continually improve the resilience, robustness, and performance of the infrastructure.
• Tooling & Automation: Build Python tooling and scripts to automate workflows, parse results, generate reports, and drive developer-facing performance dashboards.
• Kubernetes Infrastructure: Maintain and evolve Kubernetes deployments, including job queueing, load balancing, scheduling, and resource management for hardware-attached worker nodes.
• Server, Client & Database Development: Design, implement, and maintain Go-based server and client applications. Manage PostgreSQL (operations data store) and Redis (caching layer), including schema design, query optimization, migrations, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Hands-on embedded hardware and software development experience, including working with embedded toolchains and bring-up of new hardware platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.
• Lead-level experience with 5+ years in cloud and embedded hardware infrastructure, test engineering, and full-stack systems roles.
• Excellent written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with the ability to clearly document complex systems and lead discussions across teams.
• A collaborative spirit, with the ability to support and influence multiple engineering teams while balancing competing priorities.

Skills

• Go: Strong proficiency, including experience building production services with HTTP APIs and WebSockets.
• C/C++: Demonstrated ability to write, debug, and maintain systems-level or test code.
• Python: Solid experience using Python for tooling, automation, and scripting.
• Kubernetes: Hands-on experience operating and maintaining Kubernetes environments, including queueing and load balancing patterns.
• Databases: Practical experience with PostgreSQL (operations workloads) and Redis (caching).

Qualifications

• Experience with JTAG/SWD debugging tools and workflows.
• Familiarity with energy and power measurement tools (e.g., power monitors, current probes, instrumented test fixtures).
• Some experience using hardware-in-the-loop test systems or large-scale automated benchmarking infrastructure.
• Background in performance profiling, benchmark design, or comparative hardware analysis.
• Familiarity with release engineering practices for both cloud services and embedded firmware.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package, including 401K match and company-paid benefits.
• Meaningful equity program.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexibility in work arrangements.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.

Pay

Competitive salary ranging from $180,000 to $220,000, along with bonus and meaningful equity. The final compensation package will be based on your experience and location, with some flexibility to ensure alignment with the right candidate.