Robot Software QA/Test Engineer

Simbe Robotics is a leading retail robotics company providing in-store intelligence solutions that help retailers optimize operations, improve shelf execution, and deliver valuable data insights. Our autonomous robots and multi-modal data collection systems are transforming how retailers manage inventory and make data-driven decisions.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Robotics Software Test & QA Engineer to help ensure the performance, reliability, and quality of Simbe’s robotics software through strong testing practices, automated test coverage, and continuous regression testing. In this role, you’ll work closely with software engineers to design and maintain testing strategies, monitor and operate a local fleet of test robots, and rapidly triage issues uncovered through continuous testing. The ideal candidate is technically hands-on, methodical, and comfortable debugging complex software behavior across robot and cloud components.

This is not a traditional web, mobile, or API-focused SDET role; the position requires hands-on testing and debugging of software operating on physical robots or similarly complex hardware-software systems.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with software engineers to develop testing practices, improve testability, and build automated tests.
• Constantly monitor (manually and automatically) our fleet of local test robots and run continuous regression tests.
• Support triage, debugging, and root cause analysis of issues discovered through automated and manual testing.
• Perform hands-on validation of software behavior on physical robots, including reproducing field issues and evaluating end-to-end system performance.
• Assist with robot setup, configuration, and validation in support of internal testing and release readiness.
• Document issues methodically, providing clear visibility into reproduction steps, impact, and resolution status.
• Continuously improve test tooling, pipelines, and quality signals to increase the speed and quality of defect detection.

Required Qualifications

• Deep working knowledge of Linux systems and command-line tools.
• Working competence scripting in languages like Python (or similar).
• Ability to read and debug C++ and Python code while investigating failures on integrated hardware-software systems.
• Experience testing software running on robotics, autonomous systems, embedded devices, connected hardware, vehicles, or another complex physical product.
• Understanding of C++ and Python code (reading/debugging across both).
• Experience with testing frameworks like gtest (or similar test frameworks).
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices.
• Familiarity with statistics or data-science tools & methods
• Strong understanding of wired and wireless networking concepts (IPv4, NetworkManager, WPA2 security, etc.).
• Methodical and detail-oriented in debugging, triaging, and documenting issues.
• Calm, patient, and communicative, especially when collaborating across teams.
• Comfortable resolving unknown problems using research, experimentation, and AI tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline
• Familiarity with robot operating systems (ROS/ROS2) and related tools.
• Prior experience testing or supporting autonomous robots, embedded systems, or distributed systems.
• Prior hands-on experience testing or supporting autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, or other physical products involving integrated software, hardware, sensors, and networking.
• Familiarity with remote monitoring and diagnostic tools for distributed systems.