Embedded Software / Test Engineer - CTBC at Continental

Your tasks As a member of the Digital & Data Solutions Embedded Software team (DDS eSW) within ContiTech, you own the integration test layer across the hardware/software boundary. Your core question is: does this build actually work on hardware — and can you prove it automatically, every time a commit lands? Your first mission is the HIL rig itself. You receive the template and BOM from the DDS embedded team, assemble it from parts and our PCBs, commission it, and walk local plant management through sign-off. Once running, you own the test suite: every new feature, sensor variant, and firmware release must pass through the gate you maintain. Your second mission is sensor-to-cloud integration testing — owning the full path from physical transducer to cloud dashboard: write the test fixtures, validate data correctness end to end, and build the automation that confirms it stays correct over time. This is a breadth role: you work at every layer of the stack — bench wiring, firmware driver inspection, application layer mocking, CI pipeline — and your value is the integration throughput you create across those layers. You • Receive the DDS-supplied BOM and PCBs; assemble, wire, power on, and commission the HIL rig; walk plant management through sign-off; maintain the rig as hardware and firmware evolve • Write pytest-based automated test cases covering hardware/software integration; maintain and extend the suite across product variants and firmware releases • Connect physical sensors to the data acquisition chain; write or adapt drivers (C/Python); validate data paths through to the cloud dashboard • Integrate MODBUS, CAN, and UART/SPI/I2C protocols at the application boundary • Own the GitHub Actions release gate — the question "does this build pass on hardware?" is yours before every release • Use bench instrumentation (oscilloscope, logic analyser, signal generator) to diagnose signal integrity issues at the hardware level