Droyd

Test Software Engineer (Lead)

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$130k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build software tools and infrastructure for robot testing and evaluation.
  • Write scripts and repeatable test workflows across hardware and software systems.
  • Support benchmarking for teleoperation, robot behavior, and AI policy performance.
  • Collect, organize, and analyze test data and improve internal test-system reliability, automation, and usability.
  • Set priorities and technical direction for the test team.
  • Coordinate test execution, unblock the team, and support evaluation, demos, and deployments.
  • Work with test technicians, mechanical designers, and robotics engineers.
  • Grow the test team and its infrastructure as testing scales to larger environments and pilot deployments.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to build clean, practical tools for internal technical users.
  • Comfort working close to hardware and debugging system-level issues.
  • Ability to write reliable scripts and automation for repeatable testing.
  • Ability to set team direction and manage multiple workstreams in parallel.
  • Clear communication and effective collaboration across software, hardware, and test teams.
  • Experience leading a team or owning a technical workstream end to end is preferred.
  • Experience with robotics, hardware systems, embedded-adjacent tooling, test infrastructure, internal tools, evaluation frameworks, data logging, experiment tracking, or result analysis is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Python and common robotics or automation workflows is preferred.

Benefits

  • The role is based in San Francisco, California.
  • This is an in-person position.
  • The role offers hands-on technical leadership while the test team and infrastructure grow.

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