Production Test Engineer
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Production-focused software engineer to build and maintain the manufacturing software platform and technician workflows for PI’s robotic systems, enabling secure, repeatable production testing, calibration, and firmware provisioning.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and development of PI’s manufacturing software platform.
- Build technician-friendly, step-by-step workflows for assembly, flashing, provisioning, calibration, and final test.
- Convert engineering scripts and manual procedures into versioned, repeatable manufacturing operations.
- Develop local station software that securely exposes allowlisted hardware capabilities to hosted manufacturing workflows.
- Design workflow primitives for automated steps, operator instructions, retries, timeouts, cancellation, resumability, and acceptance criteria.
- Build reliable mechanisms for downloading, caching, verifying, and updating firmware and manufacturing binaries.
- Integrate manufacturing workflows with inventory systems to register hardware, assign identities, and record required metadata.
- Establish traceability for operators, stations, devices, software versions, step results, durations, and captured test artifacts.
- Debug problems across cloud services, local Linux stations, networks, embedded devices, and test equipment.
- Partner with manufacturing and hardware engineers to define acceptance criteria and automate quality checks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably involving manufacturing, robotics, hardware test, embedded systems, or fleet operations.
- Strong Python experience and familiarity with Linux systems, services, permissions, packaging, and process management.
- Experience building reliable web applications and APIs used to orchestrate local or remote hardware.
- Experience designing stateful workflows with retries, timeouts, resumability, cancellation, and failure recovery.
- Familiarity with device provisioning, firmware flashing, OTA updates, calibration, or automated hardware testing.
- Experience integrating with inventory, traceability, MES, ERP, or similar production systems.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous jobs, idempotency, durable state, and distributed-system failure modes.
- Experience with secure artifact distribution, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege hardware access.
- Ability to diagnose issues across browsers, networks, operating systems, backend services, and physical devices.
- Strong product judgment for technician-facing workflows and operational tooling.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and project-management skills.
Skills
Required:PythonLinux systemsWeb applications and APIsWorkflow design
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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