Mobile Robot Test Engineer - Automation & QA

Symbotic; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 96,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

PTO

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Test Engineer to hands-on test core robotics software that orchestrates inventory and order fulfillment for Symbot platform robots. You will own design and execution of tests for mobile drive and pick-and-place capabilities.

You’ll develop simulation-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, integrate tests across subsystems, and build scalable testing frameworks to validate robot performance across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Mechanical, Robotics, or Computer Science or Bachelor’s degree with 2 years experience in related field.
• Demonstrated ability to test complex systems; experience testing robotic systems is a bonus.
• Experience with general purpose programming environments, languages and scripting systems, data analysis packages, Linux, C++, git.
• Experience with scripting tools Python & Bash; experience with testing automation designed in Python and PyTest is desirable.
• A hands‑on problem solver who can clearly communicate results.
• Familiarity with robotics, mechatronics, or embedded systems.
• Knowledge of software quality and testing automation principles is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implement and run software test for mobile robot drive and pick n’ place capabilities.
• Owns development of simulation in the loop and hardware in the loop testing for verification of robot behaviors.
• Own software integration testing of systems and subsystems.
• Develop testing framework development for scalability across multiple robot platforms.
• Implement and conduct tests via scripting, data log parsing and analysis (grep, regex)
• Collaborate with software developers to develop tests that verify performance of new robot capabilities.
• Perform root cause analysis and system level debugging of hardware/software components for mobile robot platform.
• Troubleshoot system problems in production or design by investigating issues related to product performance or production difficulties.

Skills

C++

Git

Python

Bash

PyTest

Linux

Robotics

Embedded systems

Mechatronics

Education

Master’s degree in Mechanical/Robotics/CS

Bachelor’s degree with 2 years experience

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Test Engineer to hands-on test core robotics software that orchestrates inventory and order fulfillment for Symbot platform robots. You will own design and execution of tests for mobile drive and pick-and-place capabilities.

You’ll develop simulation-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, integrate tests across subsystems, and build scalable testing frameworks to validate robot performance across multiple platforms.