Test Engineer

Sunflower Labs GmbH; Sellenbüren; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunflower Labs GmbH in Zurich is seeking a test engineer to develop test procedures, run campaigns, and build HITL/SITL harnesses for our autonomous drone-in-a-box system. You will write software to automate tests and spend time in the field operating the system to validate performance.

You will own and scale our test infrastructure, implement CI testing, design flight test campaigns, perform stress tests, generate comprehensive reports, and propose reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with automated testing and simulation tools.
• Programming experience in Python and C++.
• Experience building test infrastructure and engineering tools from early stage.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of and scale test infrastructure, extending capabilities and building new automated test systems.
• Drive the implementation and maintenance of SITL and HITL CI tests.
• Design and execute flight test campaigns to verify system performance.
• Stress-test the system to identify weaknesses.
• Create comprehensive test reports.
• Recommend enhancements to improve reliability and usability.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Test design

Automated testing

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's or Master in a relevant field

Tools

GTest

PyTest

Robot Framework

Gazebo

Isaac

Job description

We are looking for a test engineer to develop test procedures, run test campaigns, implement continuous integration testing and develop hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) and software-in-the-loop (SITL) test harnesses for our autonomous drone-in-a-box system. You will write software to implement automated tests and evaluation, as well as spend time in the field manually operating the system to put it through its paces. You will take ownership of our existing test infrastructure and build it out as our system grows.

This position is for an on-site employee for our Zurich office.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of and scale our test infrastructure, extending existing capabilities and building new automated test systems and processes
• Drive the implementation and maintenance of SITL and HITL continuous integration tests
• Design and execute flight test campaigns to verify system performance
• Take ownership of rigorously stress-testing the system to identify weaknesses
• Be responsible for creating comprehensive test reports
• Recommend enhancements to improve system reliability and usability

Qualifications

• Experience in requirements analysis, test design, and writing test cases
• Experience with automated testing and simulation tools (GTest, PyTest, Robot Framework, Gazebo, Isaac)
• Programming experience (Python, C++)
• Experience building test infrastructure and engineering tools and processes from an early stage, with the ability to turn loosely defined needs into practical, working solutions
• Experience in test execution, e.g. manual testing, tracking of defects and reporting of results
• Bachelor or master degree in a relevant field

Bonus Points

• Experience in the drone or robotics industry a plus

100% On-site