Senior Robotics Test Engineer
Cssmerge · San Francisco, CA
About this role
**Senior Robotics Test Engineer** **Who we are** Pronto AI is a global leader in commercializing autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, deploying Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) that automate operations in mines, quarries, and construction sites worldwide. While much of the industry remains in R&D, we deliver real, production-ready autonomy that is already operating in the field. We’re on a mission to make mining operations safer, smarter, and more efficient through cutting-edge technology—and we’re building toward becoming the world’s first profitable AV technology company. **What you’ll do** - **Test Platform & Infrastructure** — Design and build the core test infrastructure: harnesses, fixtures, runners, orchestration, and test artifact management for our ZMQ/Cap’n Proto middleware stack. - **Simulation-Based Testing** — Build the simulation infrastructure that lets us run autonomy software against virtual scenarios, with deterministic playback and meaningful coverage of real-world conditions. - **CI/CD for Robotics** — Build and maintain the testing pipeline that gates code changes (unit, integration, simulation, and replay-based regression) and integrate it cleanly into the developer workflow. - **Log Replay & Recorded Scenario Testing** — Build infrastructure that converts production logs into reproducible test cases the QA Engineer can curate and the dev team can run. **What we’re looking for** - 3+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work on testing infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems. - Strong **Python** — you’ll write substantial code, much of it touching production-adjacent infrastructure. - Experience designing and building automation pipelines (**CI/CD, test orchestration, build systems**). - Deep familiarity with at least one large-scale software platform — comfortable thinking in terms of APIs, abstractions, and platform usability. - Excellent debugging and systems thinking — reasoning about failures across simulation, networking, serialization, and CI infrastructure. - Comfort building greenfield — much of what you’ll work on does not exist today. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical systems. - Hands-on experience with simulation environments (Gazebo, CARLA, Isaac Sim, or proprietary). - Familiarity with pub/sub messaging systems (ZMQ, ROS, DDS) and binary serialization formats (Cap’n Proto, Protobuf). - C++ familiarity — enough to read and integrate against the autonomy stack. - Cloud infrastructure experience for parallel test execution (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes). - Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing or real-time systems.
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