Simulation & Test Automation Engineer
Overview of Role:
This full-time position requires three days per week onsite in Jessup, MD, for hands-on work with test equipment and hardware under test.
This position requires 5+ years professional experience in simulation and embedded Hardware-In-Loop test development. While there will be plenty of on-the-job learning, an engineer with a strong simulation and test knowledge base, hard-won through real-world experience, will be much more likely to succeed in this role.
Position Summary
The Simulation & Test Automation Engineer develops simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test environments, implements system-integration and regression tests, and builds automated CI/CD pipelines for execution on local runners. This role enables reliable and repeatable verification of complex systems through the product development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-fidelity software simulations, models, stubs, and emulators.
- Integrate hardware including compute, sensors, actuators, interfaces, and test equipment into HIL environments.
- Troubleshoot communication and interoperability issues across CAN, SPI, TCP, Iridium, Cell, and WiFi interfaces.
- Translate system requirements and interface definitions into traceable integration, regression, and acceptance test cases.
- Design and maintain automated test frameworks, test harnesses, reusable test libraries, reporting pipelines, and diagnostics toolchains.
- Collaborate with DevOps to design, create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including test orchestration, environment management, artifact handling, result publication, and pipeline reliability.
- Collaborate with systems, software, hardware, firmware, production and quality teams to investigate complex failures and improve product quality.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with HIL integration and test equipment.
- Proficiency in a relevant programming language such as C++, Java, Python, or similar.
- Experience with Git, GitLab CI/CD and local GitLab runners.
- Experience designing and developing simulations and automated test and verification pipelines.
- Understanding of systems engineering, interfaces, test traceability, and verification and validation practices.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- U.S. Person status required.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with embedded interfaces such as CAN and SPI.
- Experience designing and debugging networks, touching authentication, encryption, and VPN.
- Experience with comm port debugging in Linux, including serial and ethernet ports.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary pay range for exempt (IC 3): $127,200 – $174,900
Summary pay range for exempt (IC 4): $161,600 – $222,200
Liquid Robotics designs and manufactures Wave Gliders®, the first wave and solar powered autonomous ocean robots. With our partners we address many of the planet’s greatest challenges, by transforming how to assess, monitor, and protect the ocean. We solve critical problems for defense, commercial, and science customers.
Visit us at www.liquid-robotics.com to learn more.
Liquid Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional experience in simulation and embedded hardware-in-the-loop test development
- Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop integration and test equipment
- Proficiency in C++, Java, Python, or a similar programming language
- Experience with Git, GitLab CI/CD, and local GitLab runners
- Experience designing and developing simulations and automated test and verification pipelines
- Understanding of systems engineering, interfaces, test traceability, and verification and validation practices
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- U.S. Person status
- Experience with embedded interfaces such as CAN and SPI
- Experience designing and debugging networks, including authentication, encryption, and VPN
- Experience debugging serial and Ethernet communication ports in Linux
What We Do
Liquid Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, designs and manufactures the Wave Glider, the world’s first wave and solar powered uncrewed ocean robot. Based in Herndon, Virginia, and with an Engineering & Test Facility in Hawai’i, Liquid Robotics works with global partners to address many of the planet’s greatest challenges, by transforming how to assess, monitor, and protect the ocean. Since 2007, Liquid Robotics has conducted 100s of Wave Glider missions around the globe, from the Arctic to Antarctica, for customers in the defense, commercial, and science markets.
