Systems Integration Lead

About the company

About the role

What you will do

• Own the verification and validation strategy: what is proven by analysis, simulation, hardware in the loop, bench and field testing, and how coverage is tracked.
• Build the test infrastructure from scratch: bench rigs, hardware in the loop setups, scenario based tests for edge cases and safety scenarios, and an automated regression suite with performance tracked over time.
• Run robot bring up and acceptance for each hardware revision, and run the field test program.
• Lead failure triage and root cause analysis across mechanical, electrical, firmware and software.
• Own reliability and safety: FMEA, hazard and risk analysis, safety functions such as E stop and safe state behavior, and the safety case for customers.

What you bring

• Verification and validation experience across hardware and software, especially at the interface between them.
• Experience building a test suite from scratch.
• Experience bringing up new robots or similar hardware and triaging early failures across mechanical, electrical and software.
• Working knowledge of reliability methods such as FMEA and root cause analysis.
• Hands on experience with hazard analysis and verifying safety functions on a physical system.
• Comfortable reading and writing code. This is not a pure hardware role.

Nice to have

• Robotics background. Autonomous vehicle backgrounds are also welcome, given their strong regression testing culture.
• Safety depth, such as awareness of IEC 61508. A dedicated safety hire will follow later.
• Hardware in the loop and fault injection test design.
• Environmental qualification such as vibration, thermal and ingress testing.
• Experience running field test programs on robots operating outdoors.

Why join

• A clean slate: build testing and reliability the right way from day one.
• Early equity, included with this role.
• The chance to own a domain and build a team around it.
• A small, hands on engineering team where everyone does real work.

Package and location

• Base salary: $200,000 or more, final range to be confirmed, plus equity.
• Location: Los Angeles to start, moving to the Bay Area (mid peninsula, near Caltrain) after the funding round closes.
• Work model: five days a week in the office, with flexibility on hours and occasional work from home.
• Start date: as soon as possible.

Interview process

• Recruiter screen with Energize Robotics.
• Hiring manager screen with the VP Engineering.
• Technical rounds: a software round where you write code to test a function, and a scenario based round where you walk through the root cause of a robot problem. A safety round is possible.
• An on site day.

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