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Software QA Engineer

Boston

Bevi is on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. Our connected beverage platform eliminates the need for single-use bottles and cans, making it easy, fun, and sustainable to stay hydrated. As the category leader in IoT-enabled beverage technology, we're building a future where Bevi machines are everywhere people live, work, and connect. We've raised over $160M in venture capital, serve thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, and we've been rapidly growing year over year, saving over 1 billion bottles from waste. In addition to driving hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.

Bevi is looking for a Software QA Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll own quality across our full stack,validating embedded firmware on physical machines and hardening our firmware release process. You'll work closely with our Firmware and Software teams to build test strategies that catch issues before they reach a customer. This role requires working from our Boston office 3+ days per week, since much of the job involves hands-on testing with physical machines and lab hardware. We're looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, and comfortable moving between hardware labs and cloud infrastructure.

Your Day to Day

  • Monitor and test firmware and low-level software development throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC), verifying that releases meet defined quality standards and customer agreements — influencing not just how it is tested, but how it's developed.
  • Design, implement, and maintain test strategies for embedded systems and connected-device workflows to assess release-readiness.
  • Validate firmware behavior on physical machines and test hardware, including sensors, dispensing mechanisms, and connectivity modules.
  • Test over-the-air (OTA) firmware update flows for reliability, rollback safety, and fleet-wide rollout.
  • Characterize firmware behavior under soak and stress testing to catch memory leaks, timing issues, and intermittent failures.
  • Work to prevent bugs from occurring during development, improving the overall development process rather than just catching issues after the fact.
  • Collaborate with firmware, software, and hardware engineers to identify and resolve identified defects.
  • Track and document test procedures and findings in a bug tracking system, and participate in design review meetings to report on results.
  • Contribute to release sign-off and help define quality gates for new machine, firmware, and software releases.
  • Explore and adopt AI-powered testing tools such as AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation scripts, and anomaly detection to improve test coverage and efficiency.
  • Debug firmware issues at the source using debuggers, serial consoles, and logic analyzers to isolate whether failures originate in firmware, hardware, or integration layers.
  • Develop tests that exercise firmware over its communication interfaces (UART, I2C, USB, Wi-Fi), including fault injection and boundary conditions like power loss, sensor failure, and degraded connectivity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 2+ years of relevant experience in QA or test engineering, ideally spanning both embedded/firmware and software systems.
  • This is a career-development role within the QA discipline: you'll take on assignments of increasing complexity under moderate supervision, with some latitude for independent judgment.
  • Hands-on experience testing embedded systems (C/C++, RTOS environments, serial or wireless communication protocols).
  • Understanding of IoT or connected-device architectures, including cloud-to-device communication.
  • Experience with bug tracking and test management tools (ex, Jira).
  • Comfort working directly with physical hardware and lab equipment, not just simulators.
  • Understanding embedded C/C++  to review firmware changes, reason about failure modes, and write meaningful test cases against them.
  • Familiarity with hardware debugging and measurement tools (multimeters, logic analyzers, j-link debuggers, serial terminals).
  • Understanding of common embedded failure modes.
  • Scripting ability for building or maintaining test automation and CI/CD tooling is a plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across firmware, software, and QA teams.
  • Able and willing to work onsite at our Boston office 2–3 days per week.

Additional Skills

  • Experience with hardware test rigs, oscilloscopes, or protocol analyzers.
  • Background in IoT, appliances, or other connected-hardware products.
  • Familiarity with pytest-based embedded test frameworks or firmware simulation/emulation.
  • Exposure to bootloaders, OTA/DFU update mechanisms, or firmware release processes.
  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Experience building custom test fixtures or HIL test rigs from scratch.
  • Experience working with JIRA and/or Confluence is a plus.
  • Experience with specific AI testing/code review tools.

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At Bevi, we believe compensation is a powerful tool to attract, retain, and grow talent. Our Compensation Philosophy centers on 5 principles:

  • Market-driven - We anchor pay decisions in real-time market data
  • Performance-based - We reward individual impact, not just tenure
  • Equitable - We ensure fairness across teams, roles, and demographics
  • Growth-focused - We invest in talent that scales with Bevi
  • Total Rewards approach - We strategically balance base pay, bonuses, benefits, and equity

The posted compensation range reflects the salary* for this position. Some roles may be eligible for a commission plan or a bonus incentive. All Bevi employees receive equity in the form of stock options. All full-time employees are invited to participate in our Total Rewards plan, which includes health & medical benefits, flexible spending accounts, flexible PTO, and more. Offers to join Bevi are based on a few criteria, including the scope of the role, the candidate's work experience, targeted skills, internal equity of the team, and external market data.

*For Sales roles: The posted range reflects base salary plus commission which is the total potential on target earnings (OTE) for the position.

Pay Range

$100,300 - $123,900 USD

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Flexible PTO plus 12 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc 
  • Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
  • Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
  • Wellness and fitness reimbursements
  • Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
  • Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terra-cycling, too
  • Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Values awards - and more.

A note on AI in our hiring process: We use AI to help synthesize interview notes and surface themes from feedback, keeping our process consistent as we grow. Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and interviews may be recorded to support note-taking, just let us know if you'd prefer we don't. We'll also ask how you're learning and experimenting with AI in your work. Growing our AI fluency is something every Bevi team member is committed to and invested in.

Our commitment to responsible innovation is reflected in our partnership with the Mass AI Coalition, a collaboration that aligns with our dedication to community-driven progress and the future of technology.

We're passionate about supporting career growth and would love to be part of your professional journey. We also know that talent comes in many forms. We value individual accomplishments, specialized knowledge, and genuine passion over simply checking boxes on a requirements list. Whether you're a seasoned expert or an emerging talent, we're looking for people who are ready to build what's next. If any of our open positions interest you, we'd encourage you to apply! A member of the Bevi Talent team 'recruiting@bevi.co' will be reaching out about next steps if we would like to move forward.

Accommodations:

Bevi is committed to an inclusive hiring process and we aim to provide accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you need any accommodations for the application or throughout the interview process please contact recruiting@bevi.co.

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