LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
You will steward Verification & Validation and software quality for our autonomous labs, where software meets real robotics hardware. On the Independent Verification & Validation team, you'll build the V&V, Hardware-in-the-Loop, and UI testing that lets us ship fast without breaking the lab, partnering with platform, simulation, and human-factors engineers to catch failures in test rather than on the bench.
What they're looking for
- Test/QA automation depth: 4–8 years in software test or QA automation for complex, integrated systems
- Automation in Python: hands-on with pytest and a modern UI framework (Playwright), front-end unit testing (Vitest/Jest) a plus
- V&V and test strategy: defining test plans and V&V processes, and reasoning about what to test at which layer
- CI/CD integration: embedding tests into pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) and keeping them fast and stable
- Integration & HIL mindset: testing across service, UI, and hardware boundaries, including nondeterministic behavior
- Cross-functional communication: working alongside platform and simulation engineers and communicating risk clearly
More about this role
You will steward Verification & Validation and software quality for our autonomous labs, where software meets real robotics hardware. On the Independent Verification & Validation team, you'll build the V&V, Hardware-in-the-Loop, and UI testing that lets us ship fast without breaking the lab, partnering with platform, simulation, and human-factors engineers to catch failures in test rather than on the bench.
- Automate the test suites: fast, reliable Python automation — from pytest unit and API coverage to Playwright UI flows — wired into CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
- Validate against hardware: Hardware-in-the-Loop tests that exercise platform software against real and simulated robotics hardware, integrated with our simulation and digital-twin systems.
- Own V&V and test planning: verification & validation processes and test plans that map requirements to coverage across the software-to-hardware boundary.
- Test the interfaces scientists use: UI testing for the internal dashboards and orchestration UIs that drive the factory.
- Tame nondeterminism: regression and reliability testing that isolates flakiness and keeps signal high as the platform grows.
- Manage test data: fixtures that...
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