Senior Systems Test Engineer

Cobot • Santa Clara, CA

9h • Onsite

About The Position

About the role:
Join us to reimagine the future of human-robot interaction.
Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. We are working to realize a world where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.
Are you excited by the challenge of validating a sophisticated robotic system across hardware and software boundaries? Do you enjoy designing rigorous test systems that push the limits of integration, reliability, and real-world performance?
We’re looking for a Senior Systems Test Engineer to join our robotics team and ensure our robots perform flawlessly in the real world. This role will own the validation strategy for our robot as a complete system. You’ll build test infrastructure, develop system-level test plans, and lead validation efforts that span firmware, embedded control, high-level autonomy, and the mechanical system itself.
This role is located onsite at our Santa Clara, CA headquarters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in systems testing, software testing, or validation of complex robotics or hardware-integrated systems
• Experience defining and owning system-level test strategies, including scenario-based and requirements-driven validation
• Proficiency in object-oriented Python for test development and automation
• Experience validating systems that integrate software and electromechanical components
• Experience setting up and running Hardware in the Loop (HIL) testbeds
• Understanding of Linux-based development environments and common debugging tools
• Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team
• Willing to occasionally travel
• Must have and maintain US work authorization

Nice To Haves

• Experience with automated testing tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• Familiarity with robot middleware such as ROS/ROS2
• Familiarity with hardware communication protocols such as EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, or I2C
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to drive root-cause analysis and quality improvements
• Experience developing or maintaining telemetry and logging infrastructure for test analysis
• Exposure to safety-related testing practices or certification processes such as fault injection or redundancy validation

Responsibilities

• Design and architect system-level validation strategies that ensure the robot behaves correctly in real-world environments
• Develop and scale automated test infrastructure across hardware and software integration points
• Create scenario-based and metric-driven validation plans for robot behavior, performance, reliability, and safety
• Investigate, debug, and triage complex hardware and software issues from low-level interfaces to high-level autonomy behavior
• Build and extend simulation-based and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test environments to support comprehensive system validation
• Establish processes for tracking test coverage, regression, and performance trends over time
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams across embedded software, perception, controls, and mechanical and electrical domains
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support verification and validation efforts, including targeted or one-off campaigns when required
• Contribute to internal tools for test automation, diagnostics, telemetry, and log analysis

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level