What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Robotics Test Engineer position at Symbotic?
What We Need
We are looking for a Senior Robotics Test Engineer. They will play a hands-on and lead role in testing the core robotics software responsible for orchestrating inventory into the Symbotic system and order fulfillment out to customers. We are looking for people who thrive in a creative, collaborative and agile development environment.
What We Do
We are a talented team of roboticists working on the heart of Symbotic’s automation solution – Symbot, the mobile robot. We are responsible for delivering solutions for the storage and retrieval of cases performed in a fully autonomous structure operating 1,000s of Symbots at customer sites.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
- Lead 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.
- 6 Years of experience in an engineering field.
- M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering (any) or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to test complex systems; experience testing robotic systems.
- 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
- Familiarity with Docker, Jenkins, GitLab Automation
- 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
- Experience with Gazebo and ROS a plus.
