Director of Systems Validation & Test
Pickle Robot
Charlestown, Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Jul 4, 2025
Pickle Robot Company is looking for a Director of Systems Validation & Test. This role is responsible for creating and then executing on our overall design verification and testing strategy. It includes building necessary tooling, establishing processes, building and hiring for Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Hardware Test Engineering, and System Test Engineering. The SVT team embeds with the Design Engineering teams to ensure we have a product that meets all our product requirements, delivering amazing products to our customers.
What You’ll Accomplish:
- Define the vision for the System Validation and Test Group. Strengthening System Test and establishing SQA and Hardware test functions.
- Build the organization - assist in building staffing needs, recruiting and interviewing, personnel development, and leading and mentoring the team.
- Build tools and frameworks that automate hardware and software testing activities.
- Oversee Test Plans for Integrated Product and Sub-components
- Advise and mentor staff both in the SVT group and other functional engineering teams..
- Create processes and structures to enable clear communication of issues and performance deficiencies to relevant engineering teams, ensuring organizational visibility.
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of best practices and employ this knowledge to raise the quality of delivery across the engineering team.
- Collaborate with engineer leadership on strategic plans, ensuring SVT is ready for future development needs.
- Work with the product team to understand business and functional requirements, such that a high level of reliability can be validated in each release.
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of previous experience designing, automating, and executing, integration, performance, and scalability testing
- 3+ years experience in people management, to include experience in hiring, promotions, and performance management.
- Prior hands on test/QA experience with autonomous mechatronic systems either at the system level or test architect level.
- Prior experience with testing machine-learning based systems a plus.
- Prior experience integrating hardware into an automated testing environment.
- Prior experience with specifying/designing bespoke test hardware.
- Expertise in automation frameworks and authoring comprehensive test suites from business and functional requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working in agile environments.
- Expertise in the usage of bug tracking and Test management tools.
About Pickle Robot
Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today Pickle robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. The alternative is manual work that is difficult, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and increasingly hard to staff at distribution centers around the globe. Pickle Robot is laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on. Pickle Robot Unload Systems work alongside people on loading docks to make the work safer, faster, and more efficient. Pickle robots are physical AI that unload trucks.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.