Robot System QA

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots, owning the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware to state-of-the-art foundation world models. Having raised over $450M, the company is investing aggressively in research, infrastructure, and manufacturing to make generalist robotics a reality.

Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end system validation frameworks spanning robot hardware, software, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines
• Collaborate with system engineering and product teams to derive test cases and success criteria
• Define and track reliability KPIs and deployment readiness criteria across all system components
• Build and maintain benchmarking pipelines to evaluate uptime, latency, throughput, and task success rates
• Design and execute stress testing, failure mode analysis, and fault injection programs
• Investigate and root-cause system-level failures across software, hardware, and networking boundaries
• Partner with robotics, infrastructure, and ML teams to embed testability into system design

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in systems QA, reliability engineering, or a related field
• Strong systems thinking regarding complex, multi-component systems
• Experience defining reliability KPIs, SLOs, and deployment readiness criteria
• Hands-on experience with benchmarking, stress testing, and failure mode analysis
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across software and hardware boundaries
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for test automation and tooling
• Effective communication skills for synthesizing system health signals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing or physical system validation
• Familiarity with robotics software stacks, perception, or control systems
• Background in reliability engineering, FMEA, or safety-critical systems
• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Grafana
• Knowledge of industrial protocols (EtherCAT, Modbus, gRPC) and networking
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and CI/CD