System Validation Engineer

Micromart

Job Details

Location: Toronto (Hybrid. Regular in-office presence required for hardware testing.)

Salary: $ 30.00 to $ 67.00 HOUR hourly

Terms of employment: Permanent employment Full time

Starts as soon as possible

Source: CareerBeacon #2767381

A hands-on, systems-focused role responsible for validating, stress-testing, and strengthening the full hardware-software systems that power our autonomous retail platform. You act as the final validation layer before release and the escalation point for complex system issues in the field.

About Micromart

Micromart is building the platform for unattended retail. We empower entrepreneurs to turn any location into a retail opportunity, from offices and condos to gyms, hotels, and other shared spaces. Our focus is on giving entrepreneurs powerful tools that are simple to use, while delivering a rapid, intuitive shopping experience for shoppers. Often described as Shopify for physical commerce, Micromart provides the infrastructure that powers unattended retail in the real world.

Our Team

Micromart launched just over a year ago and is now used in thousands of locations across North America. We?re a small and growing team working closely across product, platform, and smart store systems, from design through production. Work here is end to end. That means thinking through problems, making pragmatic tradeoffs, shipping changes, and improving systems over time. As we scale, quality and reliability matter more than ever, and this role plays a key part in that.

How you can help

- Own System-Level Validation




- Own QA for features that cross hardware and software boundaries, including smart locks, payment terminals, cameras, eTags, edge devices, and Android builds that interact with physical systems
- Define and enforce what ?release ready? means for hardware and edge system changes
- Develop and refine hardware and systems validation procedures as architecture evolves
- Ensure firmware updates, BIOS changes, hardware revisions, and vendor SDK changes do not introduce regressions before rollout
- Test Real-World Conditions
- Test end-to-end flows across hardware, embedded Node.js services, networking infrastructure, payments, vision processing, and cloud APIs
- Simulate real-world scenarios such as internet loss, degraded connectivity, Bluetooth instability, USB device failures, power interruptions, and router instability
- Validate revenue-impacting systems including payment authorization flows and vision-based order processing under real-world conditions
- Evaluate and Improve Hardware Systems
- Test and compare different hardware components including edge computers, USB cameras, payment terminals, and networking equipment
- Evaluate performance, stability, and compatibility across vendors and configurations
- Propose and validate improvements to hardware selection and system architecture
- Identify tradeoffs between cost, performance, and reliability in real-world deployments
- Investigate and Resolve Field Issues
- Reproduce customer-reported and fleet issues in a controlled environment
- Investigate issues such as payment preauthorization failures, visio

Advertised until

2026-09-09

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📌 engineer, hardware (Toronto)
🏢 Micromart
📍 Toronto