Robotics Release Engineer: Field Validation & Ship-Ready

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldAI’s Irvine team engineers field-ready AI robotics solutions and validates releases across hardware and software, ensuring reliability before customer deployment. You will lead hands-on test campaigns, verify builds on real robots, and capture actionable data for go/no-go decisions in a safety-conscious environment.

Join a team that collaborates with field engineers and software developers to build robust release processes, write precise bug reports, and drive improvements that scale across

Qualifications

• 3+ years in QA, system test, integration test or release validation for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation or another hardware-software product.
• Experience planning and running structured test campaigns: writing test plans, executing against acceptance criteria, tracking coverage and reporting status to stakeholders.
• Hands-on comfort with physical systems. You are willing to walk a robot through a building for hours, work on your feet, and be safety-conscious around moving machinery.
• Strong written communication. You write bug reports and status updates that others can act on without a follow-up conversation.
• Fluency with Jira or a similar tracker, and with a disciplined bug lifecycle: triage, severity, reproduction, verification, closure.
• Comfort on Linux, in a terminal and over SSH: installing builds, pulling logs, checking a process, running a command-line tool.
• Working familiarity with git: checking out a branch or tag, reading a pull request, finding what changed between two builds.
• Judgement to separate a blocker from a nuisance, and the confidence to say a build is not ready.
• Reliability and ownership. Releases run on a fixed calendar and you will be the person others depend on.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute release validation for each release: new-feature validation, end-to-end operational scenarios, and regression across robot platforms, compute, firmware and configurations.
• Run end-to-end autonomous missions on real mobile robots in our test facility, the way a customer runs them: setup, navigation, data capture and recovery.
• Verify each release candidate: install the build, run the regression set, confirm hotfixes, and report status to the release team.
• Write clear, reproducible bug reports in Jira with datasets, logs, robot, build and steps attached.
• Own the pass/fail evidence that feeds the go/no-go decision: pass and fail counts, deferred bugs and known-issue lists.
• Prepare the release handover for the engineers who deploy at customer sites: what was validated, what was not, and what to watch.
• Confirm late fixes on the next release candidate before they ship.
• Build and maintain the release test-case library so each release plan starts from a curated, versioned set.
• Partner with our test automation and infrastructure engineers so the scenarios you run by hand become automated simulation and robot tests.
• Improve the release process itself: checklists, templates and retrospectives.

Skills

QA & release validation

Structured test planning

Hands-on hardware experience

Clear written communication

Jira familiarity

Linux command line

Git familiarity

Blocker vs nuisance judgment

Ownership & reliability

Tools

Jira

Linux

Git

Test management tools (Xray/TestRail/Zephyr)

Job description

FieldAI’s Irvine team engineers field-ready AI robotics solutions and validates releases across hardware and software, ensuring reliability before customer deployment. You will lead hands-on test campaigns, verify builds on real robots, and capture actionable data for go/no-go decisions in a safety-conscious environment.

Join a team that collaborates with field engineers and software developers to build robust release processes, write precise bug reports, and drive improvements that scale across