Software Engineer, Automation

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.

Job Description

Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month.

In this role, you’ll design, develop, and maintain automated tests for Vivint’s smart home security system. You will work closely with panel software engineers, QA, hardware engineers and product teams to deliver reliable, secure, and innovative smart home experiences.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Python automated tests for API, UI, and system level scenarios for panels and peripheral devices.
• Review manual test cases and identify candidates for automation.
• Debug test failures and proactively reduce flaky tests.
• Participate in code reviews and follow automation best practices.
• Collaborate with developers, hardware and manual quality engineers on integration and troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain automated unit and functional tests.

What we’re looking for

Required:

• 3+ years of professional, embedded test automation experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Python.
• Proven ability to take initiative and drive projects to completion.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work well in cross-functional teams.
• Experience leveraging AI tools for software design, development, and review.
• Strong knowledge of networking and device communication for embedded/IoT systems (WiFi, Bluetooth LE, TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, gRPC).
• Deep hands-on experience with OpenWRT, including network configuration, wireless stack behavior, routing, debugging, and platform customization.
• Familiarity with source control (Git), containers (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for automated testing and deployment. 
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware software integration challenges effectively.
• This role requires someone who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, can handle competing priorities, and consistently delivers high-quality work on time.

Preferred experience with the following technologies:

• Experience testing or automating embedded systems, IoT devices, gateways, or networking hardware.
• Experience working with OpenWRTbased routers and access points in lab or production likee environments.
• Strong understanding of wireless networking concepts (AP/STA modes, WPA/WPA2/WPA3, mesh, roaming, RSSI, interference).
• Experience debugging low-level networking issues, including packet loss, latency, routing, NAT, firewall rules, and DHCP/DNS behavior.
• Familiarity with serial communication, device bring up, and diagnostics using UART/console access.
• Experience working with event driven systems, message buses, or streaming data for validation and observability.
• Experience improving test stability and reducing flaky tests in largescale automation suites.
• Exposure hardwareintheloop (HIL) or lab-based test environments.
• Experience collaborating closely with platform, firmware, or networking teams.
• Familiarity with Linux internals (processes, networking stack, system services, logs).
• Experience contributing to or maintaining shared automation frameworks or tooling.

Why Join Us

Work on cutting-edge smart home technology that impacts millions of customers. Be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and growth.

Perks

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• 401(k) + Employer Match

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.  

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