About ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

We're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Manufacturing Software, to lead our vehicle integration test station infrastructure, interface with systems like firmware and the data platform, and build and lead our Manufacturing Test Station & Firmware team. This new team will own the software infrastructure required to build, validate, certify, update, and sustain products across our global manufacturing network, serving as the bridge between Product Firmware, Validation & Tools Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Operations, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

This is a technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex system-level problems and working directly with manufacturing partners. You'll lead a small team of test station and firmware engineers while staying deeply involved in technical execution. It's a systems-first, factory-floor-up role: your mental model is the operator at the line, the test sequence running against a unit, and the data coming out the other side, along with everything that has to be designed, secured, and maintained to make that reliable at volume.

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and own the test station software stack: operator-facing UI, test sequence orchestration, hardware instrument control, and data logging

Translate EE-defined test procedures into automated, repeatable test sequences that factory operators can run with confidence

Define the interface contract between test stations and the production firmware image — what test modes the FW team must expose, what data the station needs, what the station can and cannot do

Design robust firmware update and recovery processes for production environments.

Own device provisioning, certification, and security workflows at the factory: secure boot verification, key provisioning, certificate injection, serial number assignment, and factory configuration locking

Partner with our contract manufacturers in Asia to deploy test stations, qualify the line, and debug production issues on the floor

Travel extensively - currently to Taiwan and Asia, as you'll be there regularly during NPI and ramp for new vehicle programs.

Establish test data pipelines, yield tracking, and reporting infrastructure, including statistical analysis, that gives the product and operations teams clear visibility into line health and process control

Drive continuous improvement in test throughput, coverage, and first-pass yield using data you've collected and analyzed yourself

Travel as needed - currently to Taiwan and Asia, as you'll be there regularly during NPI and ramp for new vehicle programs.

Define the interface contract with the firmware team: what test modes and diagnostic hooks the production FW image need to expose, and validate that they work correctly. Ideal candidates have sufficient embedded firmware expertise to submit direct changes as necessary to get unblocked.

What You’ll Bring

BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

6+ years in manufacturing test systems, ATE, or production software, having built and shipped test stations that ran in production at volume

Fluency in Python (or equivalent scripting language) as your primary tool for test automation, instrument control, and data processing

Experience with the full factory test lifecycle: DFT analysis, ICT/FCT development, EOL sequence design, fixture collaboration, and sustaining

Applied statistical analysis of factory test data, working the numbers yourself to drive process decisions