Who we are

You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

Join Sonova. Create sense.

Valencia (CA), United States

Engineer, Firmware Systems Test

Overview

The Professional Test and Verification Engineering performs moderately complex assignments of the engineering test and verification function for hearing systems.

What you’ll do:

As part of the Systems Test team, the engineer will take an essential role of integrating a feature-rich firmware onto the multi-core hardware of the next generation of cochlear implant system. The engineer will evaluate the performance, the safety, the connectivity, and the robustness characteristics of the design in close cooperation with technical and regulatory team members, during the design and the verification phase.

- Designs or modifies test plans and selects appropriate test approaches for complex test projects with the test manager.

- Designs, reviews and maintains efficient and effective test cases to assure an adequate test set with focus on understandability for further tests and possible test automation.

- Responsible for the hardware and software design and development of automated testing environment, plus its documentation, qualification, and maintenance.

- Collaborates with design team members for failure mode analysis and to prepare products for testing.

- Other duties as assigned by your manager. 

Travelling Requirement: negligible.

What you bring to the team:

Education

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in appropriate engineering field of study or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in computer science engineering

Work Experience

• 2 years real-time, low-power, embedded systems testing. 
• 2 years experience using fully automated test applications in labview. 
• 2 year of Matlab, Python and C++

Personal Competencies

• Must be able to work with all levels of management and ability to manage a team of engineers.

Social Competencies

• Ability to work under pressure and meet project timelines across departments

Professional Competencies

• Must be able to work with all levels of management and peers.  Ability to maintain professionalism among peers and communicate effectively will all levels of the organization.
• Abiltiy to handle multiple priorities. 

Language(s)/ Level

• English/ Fluent  

IT Skills

• Microsoft office tools. 

Nice to Have

• LabVIEW Associate Developer.

Our offer:

• Exciting and challenging work environment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Training and development opportunities – we believe every employee deserves a development plan. Come, learn, and grow with us!

Don't meet all the criteria?  If you’re willing to go all in and learn we'd love to hear from you! 

We love to work with great people and strongly believe that a diverse team makes us better.  We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of race, color, creed/religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, mental or physical disability.

We thank all applicants in advance; however only individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.  All applications will be kept confidential. Sonova is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify the Senior Manager, Human Resources.

Pay Ranges: $ 75,000.00 - 112,000.00

Based on location 

Health Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Health Savings, Health Reimbursement, Flexible Spending/Dependent Care Accounts
• TeleHealth options
• 401k plan with company match*
• Company paid life/ad&d insurance
  • Additional supplemental life/ad&d coverage available
• Short/Long-Term Disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • STD LTD Buy-ups available
• Accident/Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Legal/ID Theft Assistance
• PTO & paid holidays*
• Employee Assistance Program

*Plan rules/offerings dependent upon group Company/location.

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.