Robotics Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own and grow software-in-the-loop environments, including product variants, scenarios, simulated sensor and video pipelines, and runtime optimization.
• Build functional hardware-in-the-loop coverage for motion control, trajectory execution, camera and sensor bring-up, firmware updates, network failover, power loss, and unexpected reboots.
• Own CI integration, including scheduling, dependency chaining, artifact and log capture, result reporting, and flaky-test triage.
• Expand the test platform for new compute generations, payloads, and product variants.
• Develop diagnostic tooling with log capture, serial console capture, and test artifacts so failures can be investigated from CI output.
• Partner with hardware and manufacturing engineers to build and expand physical HITL benches, fixtures, switching, power control, and instrumentation.
• Enable firmware, platform, and business line teams to add tests to the framework and support them as users.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful experience building test infrastructure, CI systems, or simulation for systems involving real hardware.
• Proficiency in Python for test authoring and automation, plus working ability in Rust or C++ for reading and debugging services under test.
• Demonstrated experience automating tests against physical hardware, including device provisioning, remote power and reset control, serial consoles, network booting, or instrumented benches.
• Strong CI/CD engineering experience with expensive stages, hardware resource contention, and scheduled execution.
• Experience with declarative configuration and reproducible builds; Nix or NixOS is preferred, with Bazel, Buildroot, Yocto, Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi as adjacent alternatives.
• Solid Linux systems fundamentals, including systemd, networking, filesystems, and boot processes.
• Ability to evaluate test cost and fix or remove flaky tests.
• US person status and eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance are required.
• Experience with robotics or vehicle simulation using Unreal, Unity, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, or custom simulators is preferred.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson provisioning and flashing workflows is preferred.
• Experience with virtualization and VM-based integration testing, including GPU passthrough, is preferred.
• Background in hardware test engineering, HIL rigs, or manufacturing test systems is preferred.
• Familiarity with CAN, serial protocols, or bus-level diagnostic tooling is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• The posting provides full-time employment benefits; no specific work arrangement or duration is stated.