Senior Member of Technical Staff: Robotics Test and Release (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

Company

hirify.global builds general-purpose robots intended for use in homes, workplaces, factories, farms, and other real-world environments.

What you will do

• Own release qualification and define the criteria for software readiness.
• Drive releases end-to-end using delivery tooling to cut, validate, promote, and track deployments to robots.
• Design and execute functional, integration, performance, and safety-relevant tests on physical hardware.
• Validate releases in field and deployment conditions, including regression testing against real-world scenarios.
• Build and maintain repeatable test suites, scenarios, and fixtures.
• Triage failures, communicate quality signals, and collaborate with robot software, controls, AI, and DevOps engineers.

Requirements

• Professional experience in test engineering, release engineering, or QA for complex software or robotic/hardware systems.
• Hands-on experience testing robots, devices, or complex electromechanical hardware.
• Experience owning release qualification and shipping software to production or real devices.
• Programming or scripting skills in Python and/or C++ for test automation, tooling, and analysis.
• Ability to reproduce, isolate, and characterize failures across software and hardware boundaries.
• Strong judgment regarding testing priorities, release risk, and readiness.

Nice to have

• Experience testing robots, autonomous systems, or safety-relevant hardware.
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop and simulation-based testing.
• Experience with CI/CD, fleet deployment, OTA updates, or staged and canary rollouts.
• Experience defining test strategy and quality metrics for a growing engineering organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Salary, annual cash bonus, and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs and a 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible paid time off and daily lunch.
• Collaborative environment grounded in humility and creative technical work.
• Equal opportunity employment and participation in E-Verify after an offer is accepted.