Responsibilities

Own the validation framework for embodied robotics, spanning simulation and physical robot deployment across manipulation, mobile navigation, grasping, picking & sorting, and human-robot interaction.
Define simulation and real-robot smoke test plans to establish release readiness and system stability before model, algorithm, and software version releases.
Design comprehensive functional validation plans, including test scenarios, test cases, execution procedures, acceptance criteria, failure handling, recovery behaviors, and edge-case validation.
Establish and continuously refine quality metrics — task success rate, completion time, intervention rate, failure rate, collision rate, drop rate, motion stability, robot reliability, system robustness, and performance consistency.
Maintain the scenario library and regression validation suites, supporting issue reproduction, version regression, release gating, and quality assessment.
Collaborate across algorithm, simulation, system, controls, hardware, and data teams to drive issues to resolution, verify fixes, and close the feedback loop for continuous improvement.

Requirements

Proven experience in robotics functional testing, system testing, simulation testing, or autonomous systems / robotics validation workflows.
Solid understanding of the robot autonomy pipeline — perception, planning, control, execution, feedback, and data logging.
Strong capability in test strategy and release validation design; able to independently define smoke tests, functional tests, regression suites, and acceptance criteria.
Familiarity with at least one robotics platform or simulation environment (e.g., robotic arms, mobile robots, Isaac Sim, Gazebo).
Comfortable working in a Linux environment with debugging, system diagnostics, troubleshooting, log analysis, and test scripting.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to drive cross-team efforts toward issue resolution with a strong quality mindset.

Nice-to-Have

Hands-on experience validating embodied robots, robotic arms, mobile robots, humanoid robots, or autonomous driving systems.
Experience in release validation, deployment validation, and quality infrastructure beyond simulation and real-robot testing.
Familiarity with ROS / ROS2, DDS, CyberRT, or other robotics middleware.
Proficiency in Python / Shell for building automated validation pipelines, regression automation, CI workflows, and test infrastructure.
Proven track record of building a robotics quality system, validation framework, or automation infrastructure from 0 to 1.

Benefits & Perks

Robotics Systems Test Engineer

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