Chef Robotics
Robotics
RoboticsSoftwareTestEngineer
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“Robotics Software Test Engineer at Chef Robotics. Skills: Robotics Software Test Engineering, Automated Test Infrastructure, CI/CD Integration, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing, Python. Design and implement automated test plans, test cases, and fixtures across the full robot software stack. Build and own hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Own the quality bar for the entire robot software stack; Catch regressions early and gate releases with high confidence; Give the team clear signal on test coverage, failure trends, and fleet health; Prevent recurrence of production failures; Validate perception and robotics changes before deploying to physical robots; Ship fast without breaking things in the field
Industry & Context.
Debugging instincts — able to trace failures across software layers, hardware interfaces, and timing boundaries; Investigate and root-cause production failures across software, hardware, and system
Work onsite five days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience in software test engineering, reliability engineering, or a closely related role, Python skills, Hands-on experience designing and building test infrastructure, Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated testing into release pipelines, Debugging instincts, Solid understanding of testing methodologies across unit, integration, system, and hardware-in-the-loop layers, Comfort working in Linux-based development and production environments, Self-starter who can prioritize independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment
Nice to Have
Experience testing robotics software stacks (ROS, perception pipelines, control systems), Familiarity with simulation environments (Gazebo, Isaac Sim) for test scenario generation, Experience with Docker or containerized test environments, Background in data logging, observability pipelines, or fleet monitoring systems, Knowledge of networking protocols relevant to robotics (TCP/UDP, PTP, gRPC), Experience with hardware bring-up, sensor calibration, or embedded systems testing, Prior work in fast-paced robotics or hardware startups
What You'll Do.
Design and implement automated test plans
and fixtures across the full robot software stack
Build and own hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test infrastructure
Strengthen and extend CI/CD pipelines
Define quality metrics and release readiness
Investigate and root-cause production failures
Build regression tests to prevent recurrence
Develop simulation-based test environments
Participate in design and code reviews
Instrument the robot software stack for better debuggability and post-hoc failure analysis
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work directly with perception and robotics engineers — embedded in the team; Participate in design and code reviews
Full Job Description
## Description Chef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production — the sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles can't be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base. Our AI-powered robots automate food prep and assembly in commercial kitchens and food manufacturing, and have already produced over 110 million meals in production — generating the world's largest proprietary dataset for deformable food manipulation. Backed by investors including Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and built by a team from Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen. About the Role Chef Robotics is building autonomous robots that work alongside humans in commercial food preparation environments — and a software regression in production isn't just a bug, it's a missed meal, a stopped line, or a customer incident. As a Robotics Software Test Engineer, you own the quality bar for our entire robot software stack: perception, autonomy, platform, and the integrations between them. This is a builder role, not a manual QA role. You'll design and implement the test infrastructure, CI/CD gates, and hardware-in-the-loop validation systems that let a small team ship fast without breaking things in the field. You'll work directly with perception and robotics engineers — embedded in the team, not downstream of it — and your test frameworks will be first-class engineering artifacts. We are a small, high-ownership team. We work onsite five days a week and move with startup urgency. ## In this role, you will Design and implement automated test plans, test cases, and fixtures across the full robot software stack — from un
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