Robotics Systems QA Engineer — End-to-End Validation

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View is seeking a Robot Systems QA Engineer to own validation across the full robotic platform, including hardware, software, cloud, and networking. You will design end-to-end validation, benchmarking pipelines, and fault-injection programs to ensure readiness for real-world deployment.

You will define KPIs, collaborate with product and system teams, and drive regression tests to prevent failures. The role requires 4+ years in systems QA and strong Python/C++ skills.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in systems QA, reliability engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong systems thinking ability to reason about reliability and failure modes across complex, multi-component systems.
• Experience defining and tracking reliability KPIs, SLOs, and deployment readiness criteria for production systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing benchmarking, stress testing, and failure mode analysis programs.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across software, hardware, and system boundaries.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for test automation and tooling.
• Effective communication skills able to synthesize system health signal and communicate release readiness clearly across engineering and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end system validation frameworks that span the full platform robot hardware and software, cloud infrastructure, networking and communication systems, data pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate closely with system engineering and the product team to derive test cases and success criteria from high-level requirements.
• Define and track reliability KPIs and deployment readiness criteria across all system components establishing clear, measurable thresholds that gate production releases.
• Build and maintain benchmarking pipelines that systematically evaluate system performance across key dimensions: uptime, latency, throughput, fault recovery, and end-to-end task success rates.
• Design and execute stress testing, failure mode analysis, and fault injection programs to identify reliability risks before they surface in deployment.
• Investigate and root-cause system-level failures spanning software, hardware, networking, and infrastructure boundaries and drive corrective actions and regression tests to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate closely with robotics, infrastructure, and ML teams to embed quality and testability into system design from the ground up.

Skills

Python

C++

Test automation

Reliability engineering

Systems thinking

Debugging

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

Rhoda AI in Mountain View is seeking a Robot Systems QA Engineer to own validation across the full robotic platform, including hardware, software, cloud, and networking. You will design end-to-end validation, benchmarking pipelines, and fault-injection programs to ensure readiness for real-world deployment.

You will define KPIs, collaborate with product and system teams, and drive regression tests to prevent failures. The role requires 4+ years in systems QA and strong Python/C++ skills.