Senior Robotics Manual QA Engineer

Axon Enterprise

Brussels, Belgium

As a strong Robotics Quality Assurance Sr. Engineer on the SkyHero Firmware team, you’ll be the first line of defense to ensure our next-generation drones fly, drive and have the responsiveness our Customers demand. You think with a critical and creative mind. You will derive complex Test Plans and Test Cases for our drones, thinking about the whole drone eco-system, with laser-focus on how they actually fly and drive. You will work with flight simulators, world-class Motion Capture Rooms (MoCap), and a variety of other lab bench equipment. In addition to manual testing, you will optimize your test efficiency by writing scripts in Python with AI-assistance that helps control the drones, parse log files, etc. You will collaborate with Firmware Engineers, Controls Engineers, Product Managers, Software Test Automation Engineers and other Robotics QA Engineers to achieve the best possible quality output.

What You’ll Do

Reports to: Robotics Firmware Engineering Manager

Be part of a high-performing team that designs and develops game-changing Robotics products to Protect Life;
Derive and write comprehensive Test Plans, Test Cases while thinking critically about Customer work-flows and edge cases;
Leverage Jira and Zephyr to keep work organized and team aligned on bug triage;
Work with engineers to understand “Flight Tuning” outcomes and physically fly and drive drones to verify expected behaviors;
Turn subjective “Touchy Feely” flight and driving drone behavior and unstable edge cases into evidence-driven, repeatable tests;
Own flight/ground test execution in Brussels, including test setup, runbooks, evidence capture (e.g., logs, video), and repeatability;
Be an integral part of the team and help drive the Release Calendar, Go/No-Go decisions, from a quality perspective;
Execute test cases for major releases, identify regressions, and communicate clearly repro steps to engineers;
Use AI Tooling to assist in writing test scripts and rudimentary automation workflows;
Be a Team Player, Mentor, Strong Communicator and be ready and willing to support the Team when needed;
Perform exploratory and chaos testing on entire drone eco-system to help engineers Look Around Corners;
Help track and identify drone product metrics ensuring consistency of operation over releases;
2 - 4 Trips per year (1wk ea) to USA or Finland for team integration events during critical release gates;
Operate effectively across time zones with high-quality written updates, clean handoffs, and crisp defect artifacts.

What You Bring

While all candidates will be considered, those candidates who have proven QA experience against Hardware-Software products will have prioritization over Software-only QA. Previous drone and robotics experience is not a hard requirement, but is desired.

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited University;
Minimum 7+ years of industry experience in Quality Assurance on complex products;
Strong technical writing skills;
Familiarity with using software tools, command-line and to load firmware binaries, pull log-files, etc.;
Strong English speaking fluency;
French, Dutch speaking fluency is a plus;
Basic functional coding knowledge in a leading scripting language (e.g., Python);
Comfortable on Embedded Linux and command-line interfaces (e.g., flash builds, collect logs, basic networking);
Familiarity with Git or similar source code control system;
Familiarity with CI/CD systems;
Demonstrable experience with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) eco-systems is a plus;
Experience flying Drones, with possession of any kind of Pilot’s License is a plus;
Experience scripting simple autonomous flight paths with common UAV frameworks is a plus;
Awareness of common UAV or Robotics frameworks (e.g., PX4, Ardupilot, Betaflight, ROS, etc.) is a plus;
Alignment to Axon’s Mission Statement and willingness to work near Conductive Energy Weapons (CEW).