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Job Summary:
Coherent Corp. is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials, and networking components, seeking a Software Development Engineer specializing in Firmware Validation. The role involves bridging hardware and software through the development of a modular Python framework, implementing high-level software abstractions, and ensuring efficient firmware validation and hardware-software integration.
Responsibilities:
• Bridge the gap between hardware and software by developing a modular python framework to communicate with low-level hardware using protocol-level communication interfaces (e.g., USB, I2C, UART) which enables our software application to interact with hardware for efficient firmware validation and seamless hardware-software integration.
• Design and implement high-level software abstractions for low-level hardware communication protocols, ensuring minimal latency and preserving the performance characteristics of time-sensitive I2C transactions.
• Develop reusable test scripts and modules to validate firmware behavior, execute regression suites, support new product introduction (NPI) testing and hardware bring-up.
• Implement structured logging and reporting, generating outputs in formats like JSON, CSV, or HTML for traceability and auditability.
• Maintain high code quality, detailed documentation for Application architecture, testing procedures, validation results and reusable components for future scalability
• Integrate with databases or dashboards for test result visualization and analytics
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++ and C# with experience in building modular, scalable codebases.
• Deep understanding of hardware communication protocols: I2C, SPI, UART, USB, MDIO, etc.
• Experience developing test frameworks or automation tools for firmware or embedded hardware.
• Familiarity with tools like smbus2, pyserial, python-periphery, pyvisa, or similar.
• Ability to debug using lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power meters).
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment, with git, scripting, and CI fundamentals.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for documentation and cross-functional work.
• Prior experience in optical transceiver validation, CMIS protocol, or related hardware.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Exposure to IronPython or C#/Python interop in WPF environments.
• Experience integrating with test databases or visualization tools.
Company:
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. Founded in 1971, headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, USA, team size 10001+ employees, currently Public Company. Coherent Corp. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.