Embedded Test Engineer

Fortescue WAE is leading Fortescue's decarbonisation and growth agendas and developing a portfolio of projects centred on the production of renewable hydrogen, ammonia, minerals and other value-added products. Fortescue WAE is underpinned by Fortescue's world class expertise, operational excellence and proven capability to drive future growth.
Work location: Perth based (Redcliffe/Hazelmere)
Roster: 5/2 roster
In support of Fortescue's strong focus on green energy and our carbon neutrality targets, one of our key initiatives will be in our Heavy Industry projects whereby we will develop and test a range of technologies to power our mining fleet and rail locomotives.
Based out our new Redcliffe and Hazelmere R&D facilities and reporting to the Heavy Industry Principal Embedded Systems, we are presently looking for an experienced Embedded Test Engineer.
The main duty of the Embedded Test Engineer is to be motivated to improve product quality. This is achieved by following the V-Model principles, by applying integration, verification, validation and test principles based on product requirements and team deliverables. The application of verification and test principles typically takes the form of creating and executing test suites/plans through user or automated testing. You will be responsible for the design and development of new test suites. These test suites will be utilised throughout the complete product development process starting with and including: hardware design, prototype manufacture, factory testing, embedded built-in tests, acceptance tests, embedded OS tests, application and acceptance tests, integration tests, as well as deployment and CI/CD tools testing.
In this role, you will also have the opportunity to write software in one or more of the languages described below. You will work alongside hardware designers and other embedded software developers.
You will be joining a team who work in an agile environment. Due to the size of the team, you should possess very strong analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communications skills. This is excellent opportunity to take part in full lifecycle product development in a highly supportive team environment.
Key activities and accountabilities will include:

• Apply V-Model IVV&T strategies that document and trace software testing to requirements in the context of distributed and real-time systems.
• Contribute to a culture focused on quality and continuous improvement.
• Utilise standards, workflows and best practices.
• Execute and design integration, test & verification plans (IVV&T).
• Develop and maintain continuous integration & continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Required qualifications skills and experience:

• Experience in software development, preferably for real-time and distributed systems in industrial applications (mining, marine, rail, road transport).
• A bachelor's degree qualification in Electronic, Electrical or Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience with V-Model development and the Automotive SPICE process is highly advantageous.
• Experience with requirement management tools (i.e. IBM DOORS, Siemens Polarion) is highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of software architecture design in distributed systems.
• Understanding of network communications and protocols.
• Experience in testing software deployment strategies.
• Experience with operating systems deployed in industrial edge computing (i.e. QNX, SafeRTOS, Linux etc).
• Understanding of the full software development life cycle (documentation, requirements, testing, deployment and traceability).
• Experience with software version control systems such as Git or SVN is essential.
• Knowledge of embedded systems and software development is an advantage.
• Knowledge of model-based design and development utilising MathWorks products is an advantage (Simulink, Stateflow).
• Experience with Functional Safety Rail SIL1/SIL2-rated software development is advantageous (EN50128 or equivalent).
• A background in physics and mathematics is desirable.
• Passion for identifying issues and discovering ways to fix them.
• Ability to apply creative thinking to solve problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Our values drive our culture and performance through a strong focus on safety, family and determination. We celebrate and respect people's differences and commit to providing an inclusive work environment. This is an exciting time to join Fortescue.
We encourage Aboriginal Australians and female candidates to apply.