Software QA Engineer – Embedded Audio Systems
📌Lisboa, Portugal 🇵🇹
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We’ve dedicated ourselves to improving it for more than 60 years. And we’re passionate down to our bones about making whatever you’re listening to a little more magical.
The Engineering team at Bose is a thriving, passionate, deeply skilled team of professionals from a broad range of disciplines and experiences, who share a common goal—to create products that provide transformative sound experiences.
Job Description
As a Software QA Engineer in our Global Research & Development organization at Bose, you will be a key individual contributor responsible for validating embedded software in our next-generation headphones and speakers. You will lead rigorous testing efforts across software features, troubleshoot complex issues, and coordinate closely with firmware-, hardware-, and mobile teams to deliver high-quality, user-ready experiences. This role combines hands-on execution with ownership of quality standards and cross-functional collaboration.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute structured test plans for embedded audio platforms.
- Verify new feature functionality using black-box and white-box testing approaches.
- Use tools such as Wireshark, BlueSuite, and on-device logging to analyze and troubleshoot system behavior.
- Collaborate with QA leads and developers to report, investigate, document, triage, and validate resolutions of issues.
- Create and maintain internal test documentation, including feature validation guidelines, test execution walkthroughs, and troubleshooting best practices.
- Participate in sprint activities, design reviews, and cross-team QA planning.
- Use TestRail to track coverage, test results, and defect trends.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of team QA practices and mentorship of junior team members.
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Ensure robust Bluetooth validation and end-to-end integration readiness.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in embedded software quality assurance testing.
- Strong understanding of software validation, defect investigation, and root cause analysis.
- Proficiency using diagnostic tools such as Wireshark and BlueSuite.
- Demonstrated success working with cross-functional product teams.
- Experience using TestRail or similar test management tools.
- Proficiency with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi fundamentals is not required but highly beneficial in this role.
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Scripting is not required, though basic familiarity may be used for diagnostics or workflow efficiency.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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