Robot Systems QA Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $175K–$280K per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent robots across the hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, foundation models, and manufacturing stack.

What you will do

• Design and own end-to-end system validation frameworks covering robot hardware and software, cloud infrastructure, networking, data pipelines, and operational tooling.
• Derive test cases and success criteria from system requirements in collaboration with systems engineering and product teams.
• Define reliability KPIs, SLOs, and deployment readiness criteria that gate production releases.
• Build benchmarking pipelines for uptime, latency, throughput, fault recovery, and end-to-end task success.
• Run stress testing, failure mode analysis, and fault injection to identify deployment risks.
• Investigate system-level failures across software, hardware, networking, and infrastructure, then drive corrective actions and regression testing.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in systems QA, reliability engineering, or a related field.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to reason about reliability and failure modes in complex, multi-component systems.
• Experience defining reliability KPIs, SLOs, and production deployment readiness criteria.
• Hands-on experience with benchmarking, stress testing, and failure mode analysis.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across software, hardware, and system boundaries.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for test automation and tooling.

Nice to have

• Hardware-in-the-loop testing or validation of physical systems.
• Robotics software stacks, perception systems, or control systems experience.
• Reliability engineering, FMEA, or safety-critical systems validation background.
• Observability and monitoring infrastructure, including Prometheus or Grafana.
• Industrial communication protocols such as EtherCAT, Modbus, or gRPC, networking fundamentals, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, CI/CD, or automated test infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct ownership of the quality and reliability standards for a generalist robotics platform.
• Opportunity to build QA and benchmarking systems from the ground up.
• Work across software, hardware, infrastructure, robotics, and ML reliability.
• Equity included in the compensation package.