Sesame
Hardware Test Automation Engineer
$150K–$260K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Bellevue
About the job
Builds and owns automated hardware test infrastructure, test suites, and quality dashboards for Sesame’s wearable AI device.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain a hardware test rig integrated with CI/CD for firmware builds, flashing, testing, and reporting.
- Automate wireless, audio, connectivity, battery, thermal, and long-duration stress testing; define metrics and flag regressions.
- Develop diagnostics and bug-triage tooling, report results, and coordinate test coverage with firmware and QA.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building hardware or embedded test automation and integrating it into CI/CD.
- Solid Bluetooth audio and networking fundamentals, including A2DP/AVRCP, BLE, and throughput testing.
- Strong scripting or programming skills and ability to build test harnesses and dashboards.
- Experience defining test plans, metrics, and pass/fail thresholds from real data; comfortable in an early-stage prototype-hardware environment.
Nice to have
- Experience owning an automation testbed for a shipping consumer hardware product.
- Performance instrumentation, Qualcomm tooling, programmable Bluetooth central, battery/thermal testing, or sensor/IMU testing experience.
Pay
USD 150K – USD 260K (base salary)
Tools
CI/CD, Bluetooth, A2DP/AVRCP, BLE, iPerf, Python, Android, iOS
AI focus
The role tests hardware for a wearable AI device that brings Sesame’s voice companion into the physical world; no AI development work is stated.
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