Senior Member of Technical Staff Robotics Test and Release

Position Summary:

You will own the process that turns a candidate build into a release we trust on real robots in the field. Youll qualify releases through rigorous testing on physical hardware run the regression and validation that catches problems before they reach a deployed robot and drive the release process end-to-endusing our delivery tooling to cut validate and promote releases. This is a hands-on role centered on real robots: youll spend your time making sure that what we ship actually works in the lab and in the environments where our robots do real physical work and youll be the person the team relies on to say a release is ready.

Core Responsibilities:

• Release Qualification: Own the qualification of software releasesdefine what ready to ship means run the process that validates candidate builds and make the call on whether a release meets the bar.
• Release Process Ownership: Drive the release process end-to-end using the teams delivery tooling to cut validate promote and track releases through to deployed robots.
• Hardware Testing: Design and run tests on physical robotsfunctional integration performance and safety-relevant testing on real hardware.
• Field & Deployment Validation: Validate releases in real deployment conditions run regression against real-world scenarios and catch regressions before they reach customers.
• Test Development: Build and maintain the test suites scenarios and fixtures needed to exercise the robot thoroughly and repeatably.
• Issue Triage & Quality Signal: Track down characterize and clearly communicate failures; own the quality signal that tells the team where the robot stands.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with robot software controls AI and DevOps engineers to improve testability coverage and release quality across the stack.

Required Qualifications:

• Test & Release Experience: Proven experience in test engineering release engineering or QA for complex software or robotic/hardware systems.
• Hands-On Hardware Testing: Strong hands-on experience testing physical systemsrobots devices or other complex electromechanical hardware.
• Release Process Rigor: Track record of owning or driving release qualification and shipping software to production or to real devices with confidence.
• Automation & Scripting: Solid programming/scripting skills (Python and/or C) for building test automation tooling and analysis.
• Systematic Debugging: Strong ability to reproduce isolate and clearly characterize failures across software and hardware boundaries.
• Quality Judgment: Sound judgment about risk and readinessknowing what must be tested what can wait and when a release is good to go.
• Ownership: Ability to own the release process end-to-end and be a dependable quality gate for the team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience testing robots autonomous systems or safety-relevant hardware.
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and simulation-based testing.
• Experience with CI/CD and delivery tooling from a test/release perspective.
• Exposure to fleet deployment OTA updates or staged/canary rollouts.
• Background in defining test strategy and quality metrics for a growing engineering organization.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC