Job Summary:
Pronto AI is a global leader in commercializing autonomous vehicle technology, focusing on making mining operations safer and more efficient. The Robotics Test Engineer will design and build testing infrastructure and simulation environments to ensure the reliability and performance of autonomous systems.
Responsibilities:
• Design and build the core test infrastructure: harnesses, fixtures, runners, orchestration, and test artifact management for our ZMQ/Cap'n Proto middleware stack
• Build the simulation infrastructure that lets us run autonomy software against virtual scenarios, with deterministic playback and meaningful coverage of real-world conditions
• Build and maintain the testing pipeline that gates code changes — unit, integration, simulation, and replay-based regression — and integrate it cleanly into the developer workflow
• Build infrastructure that converts production logs into reproducible test cases the QA Engineer can curate and the dev team can run
Qualifications:
Required:
• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work on testing infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems
• Strong Python — you'll write substantial code, much of it touching production-adjacent infrastructure
• Experience designing and building automation pipelines (CI/CD, test orchestration, build systems)
• Deep familiarity with at least one large-scale software platform — comfortable thinking in terms of APIs, abstractions, and platform usability
• Excellent debugging and systems thinking — you'll be reasoning about failures across simulation, networking, serialization, and CI infrastructure
• Comfort building greenfield — much of what you'll work on does not exist today
Preferred:
• Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical systems
• Hands-on experience with simulation environments (Gazebo, CARLA, Isaac Sim, or proprietary)
• Familiarity with pub/sub messaging systems (ZMQ, ROS, DDS) and binary serialization formats (Cap'n Proto, Protobuf)
• C++ familiarity — enough to read and integrate against the autonomy stack
• Cloud infrastructure experience for parallel test execution (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes)
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing or real-time systems
• Performance engineering background — you've debugged and optimized slow CI/test pipelines before
Company:
Pronto delivers off-road autonomous haulage systems specifically engineered for a variety of rugged and industrial environments. It is a sub-organization of Atoms. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.