Lead SDET Engineer / Python / Lunix /PyTest / C Embedded / Onsite / Irvine

$170000 - $190000
Our client in the EV/AV space is urgently looking for a Lead SDET Engineer with strong experience Python, Linux, API, PyTest, C, to add to thier growing team here in Irvine.

**This is an Onsite position 5 days a week.**

The ideal candidate has a strong software-engineering background in Python, distributed and service-oriented systems, and test automation, plus hands-on experience automating laboratory hardware. They are comfortable owning test infrastructure end to end, contributing to architecture and design discussions, triaging failures across the full stack, and improving engineering quality, release velocity, and certification readiness.

**Responsibilities:**

+ Design, develop, and maintain the Python test-automation platform that gates every firmware release
+ Grow automated regression coverage for EV charging flows and build HIL/SIL simulation
+ Build and own CI/CD pipelines that make automated regression a reliable...