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Robotics Release Engineer, System Validation

FieldAI· Engineering – Infra & Platform Engineering
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Irvine, CA$135k - $170kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Role focused on planning, executing, and improving release validation for FieldAI's robotics systems, including end-to-end testing on real robots, bug reporting, and release readiness activities.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute release validation for each release: new-feature validation, end-to-end operational scenarios, and regression across robot platforms, compute, firmware and configurations.
  • Run end-to-end autonomous missions on real mobile robots in our test facility, the way a customer runs them: setup, navigation, data capture and recovery.
  • Verify each release candidate: install the build, run the regression set, confirm hotfixes, and report status to the release team.
  • Write clear, reproducible bug reports in Jira with datasets, logs, robot, build and steps attached.
  • Own the pass/fail evidence that feeds the go/no-go decision: pass and fail counts, deferred bugs and known-issue lists.
  • Prepare the release handover for the engineers who deploy at customer sites: what was validated, what was not, and what to watch.
  • Confirm late fixes on the next release candidate before they ship.
  • Build and maintain the release test-case library so each release plan starts from a curated, versioned set.
  • Partner with our test automation and infrastructure engineers so the scenarios you run by hand become automated simulation and robot tests.
  • Improve the release process itself: checklists, templates and retrospectives.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in QA, system test, integration test or release validation for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation or another hardware-software product.
  • Experience planning and running structured test campaigns: writing test plans, executing against acceptance criteria, tracking coverage and reporting status to stakeholders.
  • Hands-on comfort with physical systems. You are willing to walk a robot through a building for hours, work on your feet, and be safety-conscious around moving machinery.
  • Strong written communication. You write bug reports and status updates that others can act on without a follow-up conversation.
  • Fluency with Jira or a similar tracker, and with a disciplined bug lifecycle: triage, severity, reproduction, verification, closure.
  • Comfort on Linux, in a terminal and over SSH: installing builds, pulling logs, checking a process, running a command-line tool.
  • Working familiarity with git: checking out a branch or tag, reading a pull request, finding what changed between two builds.
  • Judgement to separate a blocker from a nuisance, and the confidence to say a build is not ready.
  • Reliability and ownership. Releases run on a fixed calendar and you will be the person others depend on.

Skills

Required:QA and system test planningRelease validationBug reporting and JiraLinux and SSHGit

Benefits

  • $135,000 - $170,000 a year
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About FieldAI

Robot intelligence built for the real-world.

FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.

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