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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - Test & Quality (Boulder, CO) - **Company:** PICKNIK INC - **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States - **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $150,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Bug Management, C++ (Programming Language), Code Coverage, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Regression Testing, E2e Testing, Software Engineering, Test-Driven Development (TDD), ReactJS, Hardware Testing, Information Technology, Low Latency, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Docker - **Published:** June 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=23c635466e5e77fe ## About the Role * Understand the value and strength of automation in testing * Adversarially approach coding * Enjoy creative thinking when approaching software development * Have a passion for debugging * Care about metrics, efficiency, and process improvement * Love robotics and care deeply about customer success with our product * Want to uplevel the team around you, * Bachelor's in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field * Experience with Docker and understanding of CI/CD concepts * Familiarity with at least one testing framework * Foundational software and robotics skills * Basic C++ experience and familiarity with Python * Top-notch communication skills and time management * Ability to think critically, ask good questions, and move confidently when troubleshooting * Able to travel approximately every other month to customer sites & conferences (<20%) * Live in the Boulder/Denver area with the ability to be in-office, especially for hands-on, on-hardware testing Some preferred skills/experience: * Owning or significantly improving unit, integration, and end-to-end test infrastructure * Extensive CI/CD experience, including owning test stages and quality gates * Building mock services and test fixtures (e.g., simulated ROS 2 nodes, API stubs) * ROS / ROS 2 testing experience * Building performance testing tooling (API and execution latency, frontend load) and establishing baselines * Leading or coordinating QA efforts across a team * On-hardware testing and deployment of a combined software and hardware product * Familiarity with Test-Driven Development * React or other frontend testing experience * Experience improving documentation and internal processes ## Description As a Software Engineer - Test & Quality at PickNik Robotics, you will help raise the quality bar for MoveIt Pro across the full stack - from C++/ROS 2 Behavior Tree nodes, through the Python REST API, to the React frontend. You'll write automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, build the test infrastructure and CI quality gates that make it low-friction for every engineer to test their work, and run the exploratory, smoke, and on-hardware testing that keeps production-ready software shipping reliably. This role is designed to grow with you, and we're hiring across a range of experience levels. Earlier-career engineers will start by expanding test coverage, reducing flaky tests, and supporting structured QA and dogfooding while learning our stack and robotics hardware. With more experience, you will own the end-to-end QA process - test infrastructure, performance tooling, CI/CD test stages, and on-hardware deployment and testing - and drive quality strategy across the engineering team. You'll also work as a software engineer on the team, contributing bug fixes and features alongside your testing work. You'll partner closely with other engineers to improve testability and turn manual findings into automated regression tests. 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