Mobile Automation Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Sigma Connectivity is a design house. We are a team of 700 talented engineers, and our main office is located in Lund, Southern Sweden. Primarily we run in-house projects focusing on connected products within consumer electronics and IoT devices and we have the capability in terms of people, expertise and labs to realize the most demanding products on the market. In US we have offices in San Jose,San Diego and Seattle. The San Diego office is located close to Palomar Airport in Carlsbad ,our office in San Jose is located just by the San Jose airport and our Seattle office is in the heart of Bellevue .As a fast-growing company we are constantly looking for open-minded, talented people who want to take part in our journey. The Sigma Connectivity company culture is about sharing experiences and knowledge and with a Nordic work culture we strive for work-life balance and taking care of people. Within Sigma Connectivity you will never work alone

JOB OVERVIEW

Build and run the automation, data, and CI backbone that powers robotic testing and CI of next-gen wearables—spanning Android and lab robots—so we ship faster with higher quality

• Design, build, and maintain mobile automation for Android (ADB, UiAutomator, Appium).
• Write backend and tooling in Node.js, Buck, and Python (CLI services, job runners, dashboards, small APIs).
• Own CI/CD for mobile + firmware: build, test, artifact, deploy, and revert changes.
• Operate SRE-style: cron jobs, alerting, metrics, log pipelines, and on-call for lab systems.
• Build data queries & small ETL to turn logs into insights (Presto/Trino).

Basic qualifications

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js) and Python in production tools/automation.
• Mobile test automation on Android (Espresso/UiAutomator/Detox/Appium). Appium preferred.
• CI/CD ownership: pipelines, artifacting, secrets, caching, flaky-test mitigation.
• SQL fluency (Presto/Trino or MySQL) for debugging, simple ETL, and dashboards.
• SRE basics: cron jobs, Linux/Unix tooling, systemd, log rotation, shell scripting, metrics/alerts.
• Comfortable with device tooling: ADB.
• Git code review discipline, and solid debugging habits.

Preferred additional skills, personal traits and experience

• Team player
• Proactiveness in collaborating and execution.
• Flexibility to switch technical context
• Willingness to learn new methods / tools / processes
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong passion for creativity and solving cutting edge industry problems
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Nice to have:
• xcodebuild/devicectl/XCUITest/xcrun automation tool knowledge.
• iOS provisioning/signing experience.
• AOSP understanding on custom OEMs.
• Agentic AI for data analysis.
• Micropython, FreeRTOS, and/or Zephyr experience.
• Networking, server-to-server LAN communication and data transfer.
• Chef or another CM.

We offer

• Paid Time off/Vacation and Paid Holidays
• 401(k) matching
• Basic Life / AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Healthcare and Dependent Care
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee and Customer Referral Program.
• For position based in California and all other states (excluding Washington), we offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance. For positions based in Washington state, we offer long-term disability insurance only.

• Position

  Mobile Automation Engineer

• Company

  Sigma Connectivity Inc.

• Location

  San Diego, CA, United States

• Competence area

  Testing and Verification, Software development, Automation

• Publication date

  2025-11-21

• Contact

  Jesus Villalpando, [email protected],