Atoms
Senior Robotics Test Engineer
$176K–$242K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and maintain testing infrastructure, simulation, CI/CD, and log-replay systems for production autonomous vehicle software.
What you'll do
- Design test infrastructure for the ZMQ/Cap'n Proto middleware stack.
- Build simulation and log-replay systems that create reproducible autonomy tests.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines covering unit, integration, simulation, and replay-based regression testing.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work on testing infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
- Strong Python.
- Experience designing and building automation pipelines, such as CI/CD, test orchestration, or build systems.
- Deep familiarity with at least one large-scale software platform; strong debugging and systems thinking.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical systems; hands-on simulation experience.
- Familiarity with pub/sub messaging, binary serialization, C++, cloud infrastructure, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or performance engineering.
Pay
$176,000 - $242,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, ZMQ, Cap'n Proto, Gazebo, CARLA, Isaac Sim, Docker, GitHub Actions
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