Software Engineer, Robot Autonomy (Reliability & Test Infrastructure)

Our MissionAt Laelaps AI, we believe robotics is entering a transformative decade, much like the arrival of the internet. Advances in AI, cloud computing, and hardware are reshaping what autonomous systems can do. Our mission is to build the intelligent software that powers physical security in the real world - enabling robots and sensors to handle dangerous and critical tasks that humans shouldn't have to. By engineering the orchestration layer for intelligent security, we aim to create a world that is safer, more secure, and more resilient.We're a strong founding team based in Zurich, backed by visionary investors and advisors. We are engineering the future of security today!The RoleYou will own the path a code change takes from commit to robot, and the evidence behind every gate on that path. Today the honest answer to "is this build safe?" is "it worked on the test robot." You will replace that with a system: the simulation environment the team tests against, the regression suites that run on every change, the hardware-in-the-loop rigs, and the release gates that decide whether a build can go onto a robot that will patrol a customer site alone tonight.This is the first engineer dedicated to reliability and test infrastructure, and it sits in our Robot Autonomy team, next to the engineers building perception, localisation, planning and locomotion. Our robots patrol security sites, critical infrastructure and defence facilities without a human present, so a bad release is not a rollback: it is a customer incident. Within six months, nothing should reach a customer robot without passing something you built.What You'll Work OnRelease pipeline: code change, automated tests, simulation at scale, staging robot, pilot site, full rollout, with explicit pass criteria at every gate and nothing advancing without meeting them.Simulation as infrastructure: a GPU-backed simulation environment (Isaac Sim today) running continuously, so engineers test against scenarios instead o