Autonomous Robotics Test Engineer (Sea & Subsea)

Superorganism; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ulysses is hiring two Test Engineers to validate Mako underwater vehicles, Leviathan surface systems, and the interconnecting equipment. You will design tests, build fixtures, and run sea deployments to establish performance and readiness from bench to field.

You will own acceptance criteria, record results, and collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, and operations teams to reproduce issues and verify fixes before next release.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience testing electromechanical products, robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.
• Ability to isolate a variable, measure the right thing, and produce defensible results.
• Practical experience with lab instruments, sensors, and data acquisition.
• Ability to script test automation and data analysis in Python or a comparable language, and use Linux tools and software logs.
• Careful records and clear communication to reproduce procedures and results.
• Comfort in workshops and aboard boats, with good judgment about test hazards and stop conditions.
• Availability to work on-site in San Francisco and travel domestically and internationally for tests.

Responsibilities

• Turn requirements into test plans with measurable acceptance criteria.
• Build fixtures, instrumentation, and data collection tools with engineering teams.
• Test power, communications, sensors, actuation, sealing, and endurance; record conditions.
• Plan integrated tests for navigation, control, payloads, fault handling, and launch/recovery.
• Write scripts for test setup, data collection, and analysis; build regression tests.
• Record hardware serial numbers, revisions, firmware, software, calibration, and configuration.
• Prepare water tests with crews and define stop conditions; ensure logs cover full runs.
• Investigate mechanical, electrical, and software failures; reproduce and verify fixes.
• Report results, untested areas, and issues; provide readiness recommendations.
• Help production develop acceptance procedures, fixtures, and instructions.

Skills

Test engineering

Electromechanical systems

Robotics testing

Data acquisition

Python scripting

Linux tools

Documentation

Troubleshooting

On-site operations

Tools

Lab instruments

Data logging

Oscilloscope

HIL (hardware-in-the-loop)

Job description

Ulysses is hiring two Test Engineers to validate Mako underwater vehicles, Leviathan surface systems, and the interconnecting equipment. You will design tests, build fixtures, and run sea deployments to establish performance and readiness from bench to field.

You will own acceptance criteria, record results, and collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, and operations teams to reproduce issues and verify fixes before next release.