Field AI
Robotics Release Engineer, System Validation
$135K–$170K
Irvine, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years
About the job
Plans and executes release validation for robotics software, running tests on physical robots and providing evidence for release go/no-go decisions.
What you'll do
- Validate release candidates through feature, end-to-end, and regression testing across robot platforms and configurations; confirm fixes before release.
- Run autonomous missions on real robots, document reproducible bugs, and report validation results and known issues.
- Maintain the versioned release test-case library and improve release processes in partnership with automation and infrastructure engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years in QA, system testing, integration testing, or release validation for robotics or another hardware-software product.
- Experience planning and running structured test campaigns, including test plans, acceptance criteria, coverage tracking, and stakeholder status reporting.
- Hands-on comfort with physical systems and safety around moving machinery.
- Fluency with Jira or a similar tracker; comfort with Linux, terminal and SSH; working familiarity with git.
Nice to have
- Release management, robotics or autonomy domain knowledge, or validation across a robot fleet.
- Scripting or test automation, simulation or hardware-in-the-loop testing, or test-management tools such as Xray, TestRail, or Zephyr.
Pay
USD 135,000–170,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
Jira, Linux, SSH, git, ROS, SLAM, Python, Bash
AI focus
The role validates releases of field-ready robotics AI systems on real robots; no AI development duties are specified.
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