Robot System QA

Rhoda ai • Palo Alto, CA

2d

About The Position

At Rhoda AI, we're building the full-stack foundation for the next generation of humanoid robots — from high-performance, software-defined hardware to the foundational models and video world models that control it. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling scenarios unseen in training. We work at the intersection of large-scale learning, robotics, and systems, with a research team that includes researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and beyond. We're not building a feature; we're building a new computing platform for physical work — and with over $400M raised, we're investing aggressively in the R&D, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make that a reality.
We're looking for a Robot Systems QA Engineer to own the quality and reliability bar across our entire robotics platform — not just the robot itself, but the full system it operates within. You'll design and execute the validation frameworks, benchmarking pipelines, and reliability testing programs that determine whether our systems are truly ready for real-world deployment.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience with CI/CD systems and automated test infrastructure
• Effective communication skills — able to synthesize system health signal and communicate release readiness clearly across engineering and leadership

Nice To Haves

• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing or validation of physical systems
• Familiarity with robotics software stacks, perception systems, or control systems
• Background in reliability engineering, FMEA, or safety-critical systems validation
• Experience with observability and monitoring infrastructure (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols (EtherCAT, Modbus, gRPC) and networking fundamentals
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems reliability

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
• 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
• Build observability and reporting infrastructure that gives the team continuous, clear signal on system health and release readiness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed