Test Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Munich, Germany; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops dexterous humanoid hand platforms with embedded tactile sensing, real-time motor control, and AI-driven perception on edge compute.

What you will do

• Design integration test protocols for motor driver boards, embedded compute modules, sensor interfaces, DDS over TSN Ethernet, and SPI communication.
• Build hardware-in-the-loop rigs and bring-up sequences for PCB revisions, actuators, encoders, tactile sensor arrays, and IMUs.
• Validate closed-loop control, timing, latency, fault handling, safe-state transitions, and mechanical-electrical interfaces.
• Build software test coverage for ROS 2 nodes, DDS pipelines, motion state machines, inference pipelines, control loops, and safety watchdogs.
• Develop simulation-based tests, integrate automated tests into CI, and define clear pass/fail gates and failure triage.
• Establish test tooling, traceable test-result databases, reproducible specifications, subsystem acceptance criteria, and benchmark procedures for external hand platforms.

Requirements

• Degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, computer science, or a related field.
• Hands-on embedded-systems testing experience, including bring-up, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, signal-integrity measurement, and firmware debugging with real hardware.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and regression tests in Python or C++.
• Ability to understand firmware and software sufficiently to identify test needs and edge cases.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, current probes, and other bench instrumentation.
• Ability to analyse failure modes and design tests that detect correctness and safety issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with ROS 2, DDS, real-time communication, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or physical test-rig design.
• Familiarity with brushed DC or BLDC motor control, encoder feedback, force/torque measurement, and tactile sensing.
• Experience with embedded or robotics CI/CD pipelines and testing learned or probabilistic systems.
• Exposure to functional safety testing and safe-state validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage test programme with no existing framework to inherit.
• End-to-end ownership across hardware, firmware, software, perception, and physical-system validation.
• High-visibility benchmark work informing external platform integration and product comparisons.