▷ [30/08/2025] Dir, SW QA/Test Eng

Job Description

Lattice Overview

There is energy hereenergy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. Its an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a team first organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what youre looking for.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities & Skills

- Strategic Leadership:

- Define and execute the quality and validation vision for Radiant design tools.
- Build and mentor a high-performing team across QA, test automation, and validation.
- Develop KPIs and quality metrics aligned with business goals and product roadmaps.

- Software Quality Management:

- Own and drive software test strategies including functional, regression, performance, integration, and system-level testing.
- Develop and drive implementation of white-box (component-level) and black-box (flow-level) testing for Lattices Radiant Software tool-chain
- Establish quality gates and CI/CD validation pipelines to accelerate delivery without compromising product integrity.
- Partner with DevOps to evolve test infrastructure, tools, and frameworks for scale and speed.

- Process and Compliance:

- Implement and enforce best practices for software quality across Agile and DevOps environments.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., ISO, IEC, functional safety for automotive/industrial use cases).

- Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- Work closely with software engineering, architecture, and product teams to ensure testability, coverage, and defect prevention.
- Act as a key stakeholder in product release readiness reviews, quality assessments, and customer escalation triage.

Qualifications

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in QA leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in software validation for complex EDA or embedded software tools (experience with FPGA or ASIC design tools is highly preferred).
- Proven success leading geographically distributed teams and managing large-scale test infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and scripting languages (Python, Shell, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of system-level validation, performance testing, and test planning in Agile environments.
- Familiarity with industry standards such as ISO 26262, DO-254, or IEC 61508 is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Lattice Radiant or similar FPGA development environments (e.g., Quartus, Vivado, Libero).
- Knowledge of Verilog, VHDL, simulation, synthesis and place and route toolchains.
- Prior experience integrating software quality practices in safety-critical or highly regulated domains.

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA , CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com . You can also follow us via Twitter , Facebook , or RSS . At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.

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