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Simulation and Validation Software Engineer

Mind Robotics· Software Engineering
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Palo AltoFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer focusing on validation and simulation to ensure robotic systems work reliably across simulated and real environments, bridging simulation, hardware tests, and real robots.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automated test suites that validate firmware, controls, and runtime behavior across software-in-the-loop (SIL) environments.
  • Integrate simulation environment inputs and dynamic models that stand in for the real robot — including simulated sensor inputs like camera feeds — so runtime and middleware teams can develop without physical hardware.
  • Own regression test infrastructure and tooling for result analysis, failure triage, and coverage tracking across firmware, controls, runtime, and hardware.
  • Collaborate with firmware, controls, and runtime engineers to define testability requirements and turn real-world failures into repeatable automated test cases.
  • Drive validation burn-down during integration and assembly milestones, tracking issues to closure across teams.

Qualifications

  • Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, with fluency in Python and comfort in C/C++ or Rust for debugging at the firmware level.
  • Demonstrated experience building validation, simulation, or test infrastructure for real physical systems — robots, motors, actuators, or similar.
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.

Skills

Required:PythonC/C++ or RustValidation/Simulation/Test Infrastructure
Nice to have:Software-in-the-loop (SIL)Robotics middleware/runtime (e.g., ROS2)
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mind Robotics

Physical AI for the Real World

Mind Robotics is building intelligent robotics for industrial deployment. We believe the fastest path to broadly capable robots is through clearly defined, high-impact environments. We are starting where the need is most.

roboticsindustrial deploymentPhysical AImanufacturing
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