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Advances in AI, cloud computing, and hardware are reshaping what autonomous systems can do. Our mission is to build the intelligent software that powers physical security in the real world - enabling robots and sensors to handle dangerous and critical tasks that humans shouldn't have to. By engineering the orchestration layer for intelligent security, we aim to create a world that is safer, more secure, and more resilient.\nWe're a strong founding team based in Zurich, backed by visionary investors and advisors. We are engineering the future of security today!\nThe Role\nYou will own the path a code change takes from commit to robot, and the evidence behind every gate on that path. Today the honest answer to \"is this build safe?\" is \"it worked on the test robot.\" You will replace that with a system: the simulation environment the team tests against, the regression suites that run on every change, the hardware-in-the-loop rigs, and the release gates that decide whether a build can go onto a robot that will patrol a customer site alone tonight.\nThis is the first engineer dedicated to reliability and test infrastructure, and it sits in our Robot Autonomy team, next to the engineers building perception, localisation, planning and locomotion. Our robots patrol security sites, critical infrastructure and defence facilities without a human present, so a bad release is not a rollback: it is a customer incident. Within six months, nothing should reach a customer robot without passing something you built.\nWhat You'll Work On\nRelease pipeline: code change, automated tests, simulation at scale, staging robot, pilot site, full rollout, with explicit pass criteria at every gate and nothing advancing without meeting them.\n\nSimulation as infrastructure: a GPU-backed simulation environment (Isaac Sim today) running continuously, so engineers test against scenarios instead of queueing for the one robot in the lab.\n\nScenario libraries and regression suites: coverage across the whole on-robot stack, perception through locomotion, and the infrastructure to run thousands of scenarios on every change.\n\nHardware-in-the-loop: bench rigs and test procedures on the physical robots for what simulation cannot tell you.\n\nFailure injection: drop sensors, degrade LiDAR returns, kill the network link, corrupt odometry, then verify the system degrades and recovers the way we tell customers it does.\n\nField incidents to tests: when a robot misbehaves on site, reproduce it deterministically and turn it into a permanent regression test.\n\nReproducibility: log capture, replay tooling, deterministic seeds, versioned scenarios, and coverage metrics that are honest about what they do not cover.\n\nAcceptance criteria: turn product and customer requirements into measurable tests, and report against them without softening the numbers.\n\nWho We're Looking For\nA test, validation or reliability engineer who has shipped a product where failure had consequences, and who has seen what changes when a fleet goes from one unit to fifty. You treat simulation and CI as production infrastructure that you own, not tools you consume. You have judgment about what is worth testing: we want a safety net, not a wall of green ticks that hides the real risk. And you are comfortable being the person who says a build is not going out.\nYour Background\n4+ years in test, validation, reliability, SRE or platform engineering on a product that shipped to customers.\n\nExperience with a complex system at scale: autonomous driving, drones, industrial automation, medical devices or similar.\n\nStrong Python and/or C++, with solid CI/CD and containerised infrastructure skills.\n\nHands-on with a robotics simulator run as production infrastructure: Isaac Sim preferred, Gazebo, MuJoCo or equivalent accepted.\n\nComfortable owning cloud infrastructure and GPU orchestration, not just consuming it.\n\nEnough hardware literacy to read a timing problem or a flaky sensor trace, and the judgment to know when to hand it to Hardware.\n\nNice to Have\nROS 2.\n\nHardware-in-the-loop rigs and bench automation.\n\nFleet telemetry and observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).\n\nFunctional safety or comparable standards work.\n\nOn-prem, air-gapped or defence deployment experience.\n\nHaving been on call for hardware in the field.\n\nWhat We Offer\nOwnership: you are able to ship products and deliver project end-to-end.\n\nMission: autonomous security that keeps people and critical sites safe, including in defence.\n\nCareer path: a ground-floor seat with real runway. 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