Lead Software Test Development Engineer for Hardware Manufacturing

Jabil is a global engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions provider serving leading brands across industries. The company is seeking a Lead Software Test Development Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and sustain hardware validation test systems and software for high-volume server manufacturing. The role collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and customer teams to ensure reliable test solutions across production facilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop test systems specifically for hardware validation within high-volume manufacturing environments, including server-level (L10) and rack-level (L11/L12) systems. This includes creating test plans, test cases, and test scripts to assess the functionality and performance of hardware components or devices such as motherboard, memory, CPU, storage (SSD, HDD, NVMe) and PCIE devices (NIC, GPU, Mezz cards, RAID cards)
• Create, validate, release, and maintain test software and scripts that automate the testing process. This software may include code for controlling test equipment, collecting and analyzing data, and generating test reports
• Support and maintenance for the manufacturing server (L10) and rack (L11-L12) level test software and infrastructure deployed at our production facilities, including the implementation of minor system configuration changes (new product variants or revisions)
• Maintain comprehensive manufacturing server (L10) and rack (L11-L12) documentation of test procedures, specifications, and Infrastructure
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality assurance personnel, to ensure alignment on testing requirements and quality standards

Requirements:

• BS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field is preferred. Relevant experience will also be considered
• Minimum of 5-8 years' experience in a role related to manufacturing test development/sustaining with enterprise server, storage or networking products is required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with server hardware interaction, validation, and configuration
• This role requires hands-on experience with hardware-based validation and manufacturing test systems. Candidates whose experience is limited to software QA, web/application testing, or test automation frameworks without direct interaction with server hardware and manufacturing environments will not be considered
• Experience in 2-3 of the core skills below is required, with expectation to expand skillset as workload requires: Programming/scripting languages: Python, Java, BASH.C, C++, experience a plus
• Linux development expertise with a solid understanding of its fundamentals: CentOS/Ubuntu
• Hardware and API solutions for controlling, managing and stressing L10 devices (servers, network and storage SSDs, NVMe): IPMI, Redfish, mprime, FIO, Linpack, ptugen, memtester, iperf
• We are looking for those who have specific strengths in Redfish and IPMI. Please be ready to outline where you have used these tools, specifically, in your most recent experience
• Creation and configuration (DHCP, PXE boot, nginx) of Virtual Machines (VMs) using VMWare
• Leading edge networking systems, hardware, software and protocols including but not limited to enterprise ethernet datacenter switching/routing L1, L2, and L3 (BGP, DHCP Relay, ECMP). Arista CloudVision is a plus
• Experience with code versioning tools (Git preferred)
• Strong knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environments
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10%
• Master's Degree in EE/CE, Computer Science is preferred
• 10+ years of experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
• Experience with test architecture design and methodology
• Experience with hyperscale customers and environments
• Experience with 5+ of the core skills described above is preferred