Senior Robotics Test Engineer, Electrical

Job Description

What we need

We are looking for an Advanced Robotics Test Engineer, Electrical, to join our Robotics Test Engineering team within our Hardware Engineering organization. Your job will be to develop test fixtures, create validation strategies, and execute reliability testing for electronic subsystems used in Symbotic’s mobile robot platforms. This role plays a critical part in ensuring new hardware designs meet performance, safety, and durability standards before deployment at scale.

What we do

The Robotics Test Engineering team is part of our Hardware Engineering organization, which is responsible for designing, validating, and delivering the robotic systems that power Symbotic’s warehouse automation platform. This team provides structured verification, reliability testing, and root cause analysis across critical robotic subsystems to ensure products are production-ready, scalable, and dependable in real-world operating environments. Robotics Test Engineering works closely with Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware, and Supplier teams to accelerate product maturity and reduce field risk.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and maintain test fixtures for electronic subsystems across Symbotic mobile robot platforms, including improving legacy fixtures and building new solutions

• Author and execute comprehensive test plans to validate electrical subsystem performance, reliability, and safety requirements

• Lead and support HALT, HASS, accelerated aging, and other stress testing activities to identify failure modes and improve durability

• Operate lab equipment including multimeters, oscilloscopes, DC power supplies, and electronic loads to perform characterization and validation testing

• Develop Python scripts to automate robot operation, data capture, measurement logging, and test execution workflows

• Apply knowledge of CAN protocols and functional safety systems to evaluate subsystem behavior under normal and stressed operating conditions

• Partner cross-functionally with engineering teams and external suppliers to investigate failures, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related technical discipline

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in electronics testing, validation engineering, reliability engineering, or similar hardware-focused role

• Hands-on experience with HALT, HASS, accelerated aging, and other reliability test methodologies for electronic systems

• Strong proficiency using electrical lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and electronic loads

• Experience reading electrical schematics and PCB designs (Altium experience preferred) for debugging and validation work

• Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and data logging in a lab or test environment

• Familiarity with CAN bus protocols, functional safety systems, FMEA processes, and structured root cause analysis methods

Additional requirements:

• Fully onsite, 5 days per week, in a lab and warehouse environment

• Less than 10% travel may be required for supplier visits or support at other locations

• Ability to stand, walk, lift test equipment, and work safely around mobile robotic systems and automated equipment.

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