At Gentex, you’ll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Software Test Engineer III verifies software design and validates the implementation of software supplied by Gentex to ensure software meets and exceeds the customer’s expectations. This role provides vision for the team to improve capability and efficiency for verifying Gentex products.
Location: This position requires on-site work at Gentex facilities. This role is not eligible for remote work.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Lead the development and execution of comprehensive software verification strategies for complex products and programs, ensuring delivered software meets functional, performance, reliability, and quality objectives.
- Define and improve test methodologies, standards, and best practices to increase verification effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency across projects.
- Architect, develop, and maintain advanced automated test solutions, verification frameworks, and supporting infrastructure.
- Evaluate and improve embedded software test toolchains, identifying opportunities to increase automation, test coverage, capability, and productivity.
- Develop and deploy new verification tools, simulators, emulators, and test utilities to address evolving product and organizational needs.
- Provide technical leadership in verification planning, test architecture, and execution strategy for multiple projects and product lines.
- Review software requirements, system architectures, and product designs to ensure testability, verification completeness, and early identification of quality risks.
- Lead complex investigations and root cause analysis activities for software and system-level issues, providing guidance on corrective actions and verification approaches.
- Influence technical decisions by communicating quality risks, verification results, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineering teams and leadership.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on product quality, test coverage, process maturity, and development efficiency.
- Author, review, and improve engineering processes, procedures, standards, and work products to support organizational objectives and process compliance.
- Serve as a technical mentor and coach to Software Test Engineers, providing guidance, feedback, and development opportunities to strengthen team capability.
- Lead or facilitate technical reviews related to software requirements, test strategies, verification results, tooling, and process improvements.
- Collaborate with Software Project Engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of development milestones, program objectives, and product launches.
- Support Functional Safety goals, ASPICE objectives, and other applicable quality and compliance requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
HOW YOU’LL DO IT
- Mentoring and Coaching – Providing timely guidance and feedback (both positive and constructive) to help others recognize strengths and development opportunities. Inviting tough conversations.
- Analytical Thinking - Tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
- Individual Efficiency - Effectively managing time and resources so that individual work is completed efficiently.
- Attention to Detail - Ensuring information is complete and accurate; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
- Building Collaborative Relationships - Developing, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with others inside or outside the organization.
- Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
- Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
WHAT TO BRING
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- 6+ years of engineering experience with increasing responsibility in software verification, validation, or embedded systems development.
- Experience developing automated software test solutions and verification frameworks.
- Experience with embedded software and hardware systems.
- Experience interpreting software requirements, product specifications, and customer requirements.
- Experience participating in technical reviews and cross-functional product development activities.
- Knowledge of software development, lifecycle methodologies and quality processes.
- Experience supporting ASPICE, Functional Safety, or similar process frameworks.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Gentex is an equal opportunity employer
Gentex extends equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), disability, marital status, military service, height, weight, genetic information, or any other reason protected by law.
Assistance
Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Gentex will not discriminate against any qualified individual who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related discipline
- 6+ years of engineering experience with increasing responsibility in software verification, validation, or embedded systems development
- Experience developing automated software test solutions and verification frameworks
- Experience with embedded software and hardware systems
- Experience interpreting software requirements, product specifications, and customer requirements
- Experience participating in technical reviews and cross-functional product development activities
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle methodologies and quality processes
- Experience supporting ASPICE, Functional Safety, or similar process frameworks
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
Gentex Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Gentex Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Gentex Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple plan designs (PPO and CDHP) with HSA/FSA options, plus short- and long‑term disability and life insurance. Some locations provide an on‑site health clinic, adding convenient access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include an employer‑matched 401(k) with a 5% company match mentioned and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. Salaried roles may also receive stock equity bonuses.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Quarterly profit‑sharing bonuses are available and often viewed as a strong part of total compensation. Total rewards are sometimes characterized as good for the area when these bonuses are included.
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What We Do
Gentex is a global, high technology electronics company that is managed by engineers and others who understand the freedom and discipline that's required to run an entrepreneurial company. We are a unique, profitable company that is vertically integrated in highly automated electronics, CMOS camera development and manufacturing, vacuum coatings, and glass bending and fabrication. We specialize in a broad spectrum of technologies and processes to deliver high quality products to the automotive, aerospace and fire protection industries. Thank you for visiting the Gentex Corporation (“Gentex”) LinkedIn page. This page is intended to share information about Gentex, its products and corporate culture. If you have specific questions about Gentex, please call our main phone number at 616.772.1800. Any content, views, opinions and/or responses to questions uploaded, expressed or submitted by third parties on the Gentex LinkedIn page, other than the content provided by Gentex, are solely the views, opinions and responsibility of the person submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Gentex. Gentex reserves the right to terminate any user's ability to access this LinkedIn page, and to edit or delete any material it deems inappropriate and/or in violation of any Gentex policy, including but not limited to: Equal Employment Opportunity, Discrimination and Harassment, Workplace Violence, Non-Solicitation, Conflict of Interest, Confidentiality, and Insider Trading.
