System Validation & Test Engineer

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Company

hirify.global develops 4NE1, a humanoid robot, and the software and engineering systems supporting its development and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own the verification and validation strategy for 4NE1 across component, subsystem, and full-system levels.
• Define test plans, coverage targets, acceptance criteria, requirements traceability, and release-readiness processes.
• Plan and execute functional, endurance, environmental, reliability, integration, thermal, motion, vibration, and robustness testing.
• Validate actuators, joints, gearboxes, sensors, control systems, embedded systems, and complete robot assemblies.
• Investigate failures, lead root-cause analysis with development teams, and recommend hardware and software improvements.
• Build test rigs, validation environments, automated test procedures, data pipelines, and CI/CD-based regression workflows.

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Several years of experience testing complex mechatronic, robotic, automotive, aerospace, industrial automation, or similar systems.
• Experience owning multidisciplinary verification, validation, or system-testing activities and creating test strategies, plans, and cases from requirements.
• Strong understanding of interactions between hardware, actuators, sensors, software, controls, and embedded systems.
• Experience with test automation using Python or similar scripting languages, Git, requirements traceability tools, test rigs, instrumentation, or data acquisition.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and a structured, hands-on, documentation-driven engineering approach.

Nice to have

• Experience testing humanoid robots, mobile robots, manipulators, or other complex robotic systems.
• ROS/ROS2 experience and familiarity with actuators, gearboxes, motion-control systems, and robotic drivetrains.
• Experience with Pandas, Grafana, InfluxDB, CI/CD validation pipelines, or automated regression testing.
• Experience with Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar simulation environments.
• Functional safety awareness and experience with environmental, endurance, vibration, or reliability testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work spans mechanical, software, controls, autonomy, safety, and manufacturing disciplines.
• Opportunity to establish scalable testing and quality-control practices for future robot platform generations.
• Hands-on work with internal testing frameworks and infrastructure, including AwesomeConfig, MotionFaster, and DriveTestBench.