Role Description You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility. The Backend Test Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public facing processes, and experiences which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need, in real-time, in a more user friendly and uncomplicated way. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy, and planning through to post production testing, and support. What you'll do - Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software - Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems - Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs - Write and maintain documentation for test plans, test cases, and test results - Monitor and analyze test results, and report defects and performance issues to development teams - Ensure compliance with security best practices in all testing activities - Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur - Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed Qualifications - Minimum of 8 years of testing experience - At least 5 years coding in Javascript - Ability to develop testing strategy, define testing processes, introduce best practices, and advocate for test automation - Experience with defining and executing test plans and test cases for complex enterprise applications - Strong skills in tracking, reporting, and prioritizing defects using tools like Jira, Github project - Experience with a mix of automation tools such as: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, or other automation frameworks - Knowledge of performance testing tools - Experience leading regression, UAT, and E2E testing - Familiarity with security testing and data protection best practices - Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented - Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits - An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise Requirements - Legal authorization to work in the United States - Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired - Work authorization that doesn’t require visa sponsorship, now or in the future - May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract Benefits - Health coverage — comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans to support your overall health needs - Insurance coverage — Nava provides disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost - Time off — vacation, holidays (including Juneteenth), and floating holidays to rest and recharge - Company holidays — enjoy 12 paid federal holidays each year on top of your regular PTO - Annual bonus — when Nava meets its goals, eligible employees receive a performance-based annual bonus - Parental leave — paid time off for new parents, plus weekly meals delivered to your home - Wellness program — full platform offering physical, mental, & emotional health resources & support tools - Virtual care — see doctors online with no copay through UnitedHealthcare’s virtual visit program - Sabbatical leave — earn extended unpaid leave after continuous service for personal growth or rest - 401(k) match — Nava matches 4% of your salary to support your retirement savings plan - Flexible work — remote-first environment with flexibility built around your schedule and responsibilities - Home office setup — company laptop & setup assistance provided via Staples for remote work needs - Utility support — monthly reimbursement to help offset eligible home office utility expenses - Learning opportunities — internal training programs and resources to help grow your professional skills - Development opportunities — LinkedIn Learning access & an annual allowance for courses, tuition, & certs - Referral bonus — get rewarded when you refer great people who join the Nava team - Commuter benefits — pre-tax commuter programs to support in-office travel when applicable - Supportive culture — A collaborative and remote-friendly team environment where people genuinely care

• Architect and lead scalable release orchestration workflows across cloud-native, SaaS, enterprise, and AI product environments, including quality gates and automated validation throughout the SDLC • Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms, implementing progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, and phased rollouts • Lead enterprise software packaging and artifact lifecycle management, including SBOM generation, artifact signing, provenance, dependency validation, and binary integrity verification • Establish release governance frameworks with defined KPIs — deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, and lead time — driving operational stability and incident reduction • Embed DevSecOps principles into release workflows, collaborating with Security Engineering to integrate scanning, policy enforcement, compliance automation, and vulnerability validation • Serve as the technical authority for release engineering standards, mentoring engineers and guiding teams on release automation, deployment strategies, and CI/CD best practices • Communicate release readiness, operational risks, and deployment strategies to both technical and executive stakeholders

Role Description Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, is looking for an experienced and talented Embedded Software Engineer to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities to enhance the Embedded Software function in a growing organization. The Embedded Software Engineer will be responsible for helping us create groundbreaking AI solutions for Syntiant's award-winning neural accelerators. We are looking for passionate and talented technical contributors who have experience designing and implementing world-class embedded firmware, low-level systems software, and device driver programming. People selected will have the opportunity to contribute their creative ideas and lead several key projects and collaborate with an experienced team of scientists and engineers coming from companies like AWS AI, Microsoft, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and Bell Labs. - Research, prototype, design, and implement components at all layers of the system, for instance, kernel, synchronization primitives, resource allocators, security, persistence. - Participate in design reviews, SDK development, and documentation. - Bring up new devices and lead performance measurement and debugging initiatives. - Take full ownership of driving our partners on active engagements. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field. - 5+ years of experience with C/C++ in embedded systems. - 3+ years of professional experience in building frameworks for Linux-based embedded systems in C/C++. - 4+ years of experience with software and hardware platforms in Linux, Android, RTOS. - Proficient in Python, shell scripting, Git, CI/CD tools. - Experience with SPI, I2C, I2S, etc. peripherals. - Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. - Passionate about Machine Learning solutions on edge devices. Company Description Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor, and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. - Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high-performance, deep neural network processors. - Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. - The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. - More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com .

• Own customer problems end to end, from discovery conversations through shipped, measured solutions • Build full stack features and standalone tools using AI-assisted development as your default mode • Prototype rapidly to validate ideas with real users, then partner with engineering to harden the winners into production-quality software • Make strategic product calls on scope, tradeoffs, and sequencing • Develop and share team practices for agentic development