WHAT WE DO
Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.
ROLE AT A GLANCE
The Field Infrastructure team verifies and validates Gecko's robotic systems (hardware/software) before they reach the field. We're looking for a Release Engineer to execute recurring hardware and software release tests, produce reliable results, and grow into coordinating test work across engineering teams and robotic platforms.
The immediate need is hands-on test execution. You'll prepare test setups, run mechanical and software, functional, durability, and environmental tests, analyze results, and support root cause analysis (RCA). Working with Test & Reliability engineers and Robotics Technicians, you'll take ownership of test readiness, repeatable execution, and clear documentation against agreed objectives and acceptance criteria.
Test planning and coordination are a key part of the role's longer-term scope. As you learn the systems and testing workflows, you'll become a central point of coordination for incoming requests, schedules, dependencies, and execution support. This role suits someone who can run tests carefully, organize competing technical priorities, and communicate clearly with Engineering, Quality, mission teams, and Robotics Technicians.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
RELEASE TEST EXECUTION
- Execute recurring EOL hardware/software release testing and other agreed mechanical, functional, durability, and environmental procedures on components, subassemblies, and robotic systems
- Prepare test articles, fixtures, and instrumentation; verify hardware and software configurations, setup, and equipment calibration status before testing
- Monitor test progress and hardware behavior; pause and escalate unsafe conditions, unexpected results, or procedure gaps before proceeding
- Improve test procedures and setup documentation with Test & Reliability engineers so recurring tests become consistent, repeatable, and easier to hand off
TEST PLANNING AND COORDINATION
- Develop a shared view of incoming test requests with Test & Reliability engineers and mission teams, clarifying objectives, procedures, acceptance criteria, and required dates
- Coordinate priorities, schedules, dependencies, equipment, and test article readiness across engineering teams; make conflicts and resource gaps visible early
- Arrange execution support with technician team leads, matching available capacity and skills to the work while personally executing tests as needed
- Track tests through execution, results, and follow-up actions, keeping requesters informed and improving repeatable planning and handoff processes
TEST DATA AND ANALYSIS
- Maintain traceable records of hardware IDs, hardware and software configurations, procedure revisions, test conditions, and raw measurements
- Analyze test results in spreadsheets and reports; compare measurements with agreed acceptance criteria and identify trends, anomalies, and incomplete data
- Document unexpected behavior with logs, photos, measurements, and timelines, linking findings to the relevant test run and internal tracking records
- Prepare clear result summaries for engineering review, including test coverage, open issues, and recommended follow-up testing to support release readiness decisions
TEST READINESS
- Confirm that test articles, fixtures, instrumentation, procedures, and required access are available and ready before scheduled testing
- Coordinate hardware and software configurations with…