Robotics Automation Engineer in Test
Machina Labs — Tracked from its lever job board
About the role
About Machina Labs:
Engineering moves at software speed. Manufacturing doesn't. Yet.
Machina Labs is changing that. We build intelligent, software-defined factories that produce complex metal structures directly from digital design. By integrating advanced metal forming, robotics, and automated production inside a flexible factory architecture, we enable customers to move from prototype to production in weeks, not years.
Backed by Lockheed Martin, Toyota, and NVIDIA, we're building the manufacturing infrastructure that defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility programs will run on.
If you want to work on hard problems that matter and see them fly, drive, and defend, this is the place.
Job Description:
Machina Labs is seeking a Robotics Automation Engineer in Test to own quality, validation, and release execution across our robotics and industrial automation software stack as we deploy and scale production cells.
This role is responsible for defining and enforcing quality strategy for robotics and automation systems, validating release candidates, and supporting deployments to production cells. You will work hands-on with physical systems, running tests and experiments on cells, supporting issue triage, and acting as a gatekeeper for production releases. This position operates closely with robotics, controls, and software teams and has the authority to approve the transition from release candidate to official release.
The ideal candidate combines strong robotics and automation engineering fundamentals with a disciplined approach to testing, validation, and production readiness in hardware-integrated environments.
What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 2, 2026, 6 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 37 indexed QA & Test Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $140k and $175k, median $155k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Machina Labs.
- What QA & Test Engineer roles ask for — across 407 indexed openings: Python (41%), React Native (26%), REST/APIs (25%), C++ (12%), SQL (10%).
- Machina Labs is hiring actively — 12 open roles indexed.
Derived from the 27,000 roles JobLarper indexes daily from official company boards — not from the job description above.
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