Testing Engineer

We are hiring a Testing Engineer

Start date: ASAP

Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible)

Full-time (100%)

Your role

As a Testing Engineer, you will be in charge of building the organizational machine that continuously tests, improves, and validates our product. You will be at the intersection of hardware, software, and operations. Your are going to leverage your deep full-stack understanding of robotics systems to greatly impact the performance of our robot fleet. You will push our systems to failure and closely collaborate with engineers across hardware and software to figure out where and how improvements can be made, you will build the processes to run our tests, and you will work closely with the operations team to build testing environments that challenge our systems.

What you'll be doing

Define the testing processes intended to make edge-case issues surface

Design the testing rigs and mock-up environments to increase our testing capacity and coverage

Manage a team of robot operators in charge of running the test jobs you plan

Build systems to improve the feedback loops between the testing and R&D teams

Contribute to the engineering solutions of many of the problems you identify across hardware and software

Plan and oversee release testing, and manage the hardware and software releases of our system

What you should have

3+ years building robotics systems in a professional settings across hardware and software, to deeply understand the system you're testing

Linux fluency such as bash, containers, systemd, networking

Excellent interpersonal skills, to interface with everyone on the engineering team and manage a team of robot operators

Excellent organizational skills, to navigate messy environments and a lot of noise

High agency, to figure out how to make things happen faster than most would expect

These skills are a plus:

Experience with debugging common electrical systems (CAN bus, power distribution, ..)

Experience with ROS2

Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing

Experience with NVIDIA Jetson

Experience with CAD modeling (e.g. Onshape)

You will be the first dedicated Testing Engineer at Loki. Your work will be central to the success of our customer deployments and engineering culture.

Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value people who learn fast and care about building great products. Just give it a go and apply.