Software Qa Automation Engineer

Using artificial intelligence and machine vision, we provide crews on boats and ships with the most accurate digital understanding of a vessel 's near-field surface surroundings.
We make marine mobility safer and more convenient, providing a better mobility experience at sea.
We are a multi-national team based in Austria, France, Portugal and the US.

We offer
a fast and agile workplace for experts from a variety of disciplines.
We share a common culture shaped by ambition, autonomy, openness, honesty, and respect.
As a fast-growing team of ~60 colleagues, we are large enough to create impact.
We are also small enough that each team member has an influence on the way we work.
To strengthen our software team in Lisbon, we are looking for a Senior QA & Automation Engineer (m/f/d), 40 hours/week.
Role overviewQuality is the line between a software update and a safety incident at sea.
Our camera systems run on embedded NVIDIA Jetson hardware and are deployed on vessels operated by coast guards, rescue services, ferry operators, and recreational sailors.
Your mission is to work with our two Scrum teams to create a reliable, sustainable, and thoroughly automated QA workflow that helps us ship software faster while keeping confidence high.
ResponsibilitiesAssess our current QA workflow end-to-end and design a strategy that turns it into a force multiplier, one that scales with the pace of development rather than constraining itShift quality left: embed QA thinking into the development process from specification and estimation, ensuring testability is a design consideration from day oneApply risk-based assessment, identifying where automation delivers the most confidence per effort and where current practices can be safely streamlinedReduce the team's reliance on fully integrated hardware for development and QADrive the automation of pre-release qualification, reducing the manual testing burdenBring AI-native approaches to test generation, spec-driven test design, and failure analysisYour profile and qualifications5+ years of experience in QA engineering, test automation, or software quality in a professional settingYou make daily use of agentic coding tools and evolve your approach as the landscape movesProven track record with end-to-end, integration, and performance testingPractical experience with test management and related tooling (XRay for Jira or similar)Experience with hardware-in-the-loop, embedded systems, or IoT testing environmentsFluent in English; additional languages are a plus
- Nice to haves: familiarity with real-time video pipelines; experience testing on ARM/embedded Linux; background in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or other safety-relevant embedded domainsWhat

we offer
Highly motivated, skilled, and collaborative interdisciplinary and international teamSee your work in action: our latest systems are regularly tested on company-owned boats on the water at our business locationsReal mission: your work directly supports safety and rescue operations at seaOpportunity to travel to our other offices and collaborate with teams across Europe and beyondFlexibility: modern work culture with flexible

working hours
and occasional home office optionsSubsidies for motorboat and sailing licenses, because we live what we buildCompetitive salary in a range of 2,500 € to 3,500 € gross monthlyWe are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diversity.
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