Principal Autonomous Test Engineer

Posted on: October 08, 2026 Job requisition id: R8197 Principal Autonomous Test Systems Engineer

Location: Remote (US) · Periodic visits to our Integrated Testing Center in Wilmington, MA Symbotic builds AI-powered robotic systems that automate the warehouse. Behind every system we ship is a test organization running real robots, rigs, and instrumentation at fleet scale. Today, that test data lives across teams, formats, and tools. We're hiring a principal engineer to bring it together: one pipeline, one schema, one automation framework, and dashboards our executive team reads every week. This is a greenfield role. You'll define the architecture, not inherit it.

What you'll do: Build executive test dashboards our leadership uses to see the true state of testing across the company, without anyone assembling it by hand. Design and own one versioned test data schema used by every test team, with pipelines from test rigs, DAQ, automated runs, and manual campaigns. Architect the shared automation framework every test team builds on: orchestration, sequencing, result capture, and CI/CD. Bring physical test environments—including rigs, fixtures, instrumentation, and hardware in the loop—into automated, end-to-end system integration testing. Drive adoption with reference implementations, docs, and hands‑on enablement. Equip our reliability team with the clean, traceable data they need to model how our systems age and wear. Set the roadmap, make build vs. buy calls, and mentor senior engineers, growing into leading a small team of technical leads. What you bring 12+ years in test automation, test infrastructure, or data platform engineering for physical, electromechanical, or robotic systems. A track record of adoption: A platform you built that teams outside your own adopted. (Tell us how many teams used it and how you got them there. Hardware expertise: Hands‑on time with real hardware: DAQ, sensors, test rigs, HIL, and system integration. Data fluency: Test or telemetry data modeling, time series data, and dashboards that non-engineers actually use. Technical stack: Strong Go and/or Python, CI/CD, containers, AWS, and API design.

Education: A Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Bonus points: You've architected platforms in Go. You've worked alongside reliability engineers on life or degradation modeling. Why you'll like it here Greenfield: One platform for the whole test organization, defined entirely by you. Visibility: Your first deliverable is read directly by executive staff. Authority without overhead: You set the standards and interfaces every test team builds against. Real hardware at scale: Robotics test data at a scale most platform roles never touch. Flexibility: Remote, with lab time at our Integrated Testing Center only when the work calls for it. Our environment This is a remote position based in the United States, with periodic onsite work at the Integrated Testing Center (ITC) in Wilmington, MA, for rig and instrumentation integration. Less than 5% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and/or fly to the ITC and other company locations. The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis. The base range for this position in the posted location is $180,000.00 - $247,500.00 however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO and/or other benefits.