Robotics SW Test Engineer — CI/Automation & HIL

Nimble; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble is seeking a senior test engineer to own the robot-stack regression testing for V6 software and firmware. You will partner with Systems Integration to build automated regression suites, ensure coverage across SW modules, HIL, and SW/HW interfaces, and defend against field regressions before fleet deployment.

You will design and implement automated test frameworks, replay scenarios, and CI pipelines, ensuring traceability and high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software test, robotics or embedded validation, or test automation.
• Strong programming in Python and Rust (or C++); experience building automated test frameworks and CI pipelines.
• Familiarity with robotics/embedded middleware (ROS/ROS2 or custom control frameworks), fault injection, and logged-data replay.
• Rigorous about requirements traceability and defect management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the full robot-stack regression suite: happy-path plus fault-injection and recovery testing across SW modules, HIL, and SW/HW interfaces.
• Build automated integration tests and logged-data replay/scenario suites that catch performance drift across software and model updates before deployment.
• Own test case management and traceability; define pass/fail criteria and triage failures with robotics SW, embedded, and HIL owners.
• Integrate regression into CI so releases are validated at both the SW and full-robot level ahead of fleet rollout.
• Partner with members of Systems Integration team on HIL coverage and with deployment teams to reproduce and prevent field-reported regressions.

Skills

Python

Rust

C++

CI pipelines

Test automation

Embedded validation

Requirements traceability

Robotics software testing

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Job description

Nimble is seeking a senior test engineer to own the robot-stack regression testing for V6 software and firmware. You will partner with Systems Integration to build automated regression suites, ensure coverage across SW modules, HIL, and SW/HW interfaces, and defend against field regressions before fleet deployment.

You will design and implement automated test frameworks, replay scenarios, and CI pipelines, ensuring traceability and high-quality releases.