Validation & Tools Engineer

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.

As a Sr. Staff Validation & Tools Engineer focused on Embedded Firmware and Software Validation, you will own the validation strategy, tooling architecture, and system-level quality approach for our flagship and next-generation products. This is a very hands-on role and will require a 0 to 1 mindset.

You will build and scale validation frameworks across firmware, software, connectivity, mobile, cloud-adjacent systems, and HIL environments. You will partner closely with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Product, Mobile, Cloud, and Test Engineering teams to improve testability, traceability, release readiness, and early issue detection.

This role is ideal for someone who can set technical direction, build practical validation infrastructure, mentor engineers, and help create a quality-first culture in a fast-moving product environment.

What You Will Do

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for embedded firmware and software validation across product programs.

• Design, scale, and maintain SIL and HIL validation infrastructure to support automated system-level testing, regression coverage, release readiness, and issue reproduction.

• Build and evolve validation frameworks that improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, traceability, and quality reporting across firmware and software releases.

• Establish clear validation metrics, including test coverage, pass/fail trends, defect escape rate, regression health, automation coverage, and release readiness indicators.

• Lead end-to-end validation planning for new features, firmware releases, connectivity workflows, and system-level product behavior.

• Partner with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Mobile, Cloud, and Product teams to ensure requirements are testable, risks are understood, and validation plans are aligned before implementation.

• Lead technical root-cause analysis for complex system issues across hardware, firmware, embedded software, connectivity, and test infrastructure.