Robotics Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (SITL/HITL)New$292K

The Sentry Tower Software team develops robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities, monitoring the perimeter of secure areas, land or sea, for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels. We live in a world where security officers are increasingly overwhelmed by sensor data feeds.

What you'll do

• Own and grow our SITL environments: add product variants and scenarios, keep the simulated sensor and video pipelines faithful enough to be trustworthy, and keep whole-system test runtimes short enough to fit inside a normal development cycle.

• Build out functional coverage on the HITL bench across the behavior that: matters: motion control and trajectory execution, camera and sensor bring-up, firmware update paths, network failover, and clean recovery from power loss and unexpected reboots.

• Own the CI integration end to end: scheduling, dependency chaining between test stages, artifact and log capture, result reporting, and the flake triage that keeps a hardware pipeline trusted instead of ignored.

• Grow the test platform continuously as the product line does. New compute: generations, new payloads, and new product variants each need coverage, and keeping the framework ahead of the roadmap is the enduring core of this role.

• Make failures diagnosable without touching the rig. Invest in log capture,: serial console capture, and test artifacts so an engineer can root-cause from the CI output alone.

• Partner with hardware and manufacturing engineers to stand up the physical: HITL benches, specifying the fixtures, switching, power control, and instrumentation needed to exercise towers unattended. This is a substantial upfront build with periodic expansion as new hardware arrives.

What they're looking for

• Partner with firmware, platform, and business line teams so they can add: their own tests against your framework, and support them as their first users.