Senior Robotics Release and Test Engineer

Senior Robotics Release and Test Engineer

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in release engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Proficient utilization of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with performance testing frameworks and tools.
• Expertise in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Comprehension of performance characteristics inherent in robotics and real-time systems.
• Thorough understanding of release management best practices and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Knowledge of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and edge computing paradigms.
• Understanding of conveyor systems and production line orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage comprehensive CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, inclusive of hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Institute automated performance gates to validate the operational speed, accuracy, and reliability of robots.
• Formulate release procedures to encompass both software updates and robot firmware deployments.
• Administer staged deployment strategies, such as canary and blue-green deployments, for production systems.
• Integrate validation with other equipment such as conveyor systems within deployment pipelines.
• Generate automated performance benchmarks to be executed as an integral component of each release.
• Deploy regression detection systems to identify performance degradation at an early stage.
• Establish real-time monitoring of pivotal performance metrics in production environments.
• Engage with development teams to assimilate performance considerations into feature development processes.
• Partner with performance engineers to translate performance requirements into automated test protocols.
• Coordinate release schedules with customer operations and field teams.
• Disseminate information regarding performance enhancements and challenges to relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate effective communication and understanding among mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams.
• Develop monitoring systems to track robot performance across various customer systems.
• Establish alerting thresholds for performance anomalies detected in production environments.
• Create dashboards to visualize robot uptime, throughput, and packaging quality metrics.
• Conduct post-release performance analysis and formulate recommendations for improvement.
• Implement predictive maintenance monitoring for components of the packaging line.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with robotic systems or industrial automation deployments.
• Experience with distributed systems and challenges related to edge deployment.
• Expertise in packaging line optimization.