Robotics Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

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This role sits within ABB's Robotics business, a leading global robotics company. We're entering an exciting new chapter as we’ve announced the plan for SoftBank Group to acquire ABB Robotics. SoftBank is a globally recognized technology group and investor/operator focused on AI, robotics, and next-generation computing. By joining us now, you’ll be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of robotics—working alongside world-class experts in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment.

This Position reports to:

R&D Team Lead

In this role, you will build and evolve the software infrastructure that enables reliable, continuous testing of autonomous robotic systems. Your work will help our teams detect problems earlier, improve release confidence, and scale validation as our products and deployments grow.

This role is contributing to the Sevensense by ABB team as part of ABB Robotics in Spain and Switzerland. Based in Sant Quirze del Vallès, Barcelona, you will work closely with robotics and software engineers to make testing of our industry‑leading visual localization system more scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly.

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• 3+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure engineering.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• Strong programming skills in Python. Experience with Rust or C++ is highly desirable.
• Strong hands-on Linux experience, including system troubleshooting, networking and containerized/virtualized environments.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD infrastructure, including runners, jobs, artifacts, caching, parallel execution and failure recovery.
• Experience with Docker and software deployment/configuration.
• Experience with HIL, embedded or edge devices (Jetson), robotics or ROS2 is a strong plus, but previous robotics experience is not required.
• You are at ease communicating in English.

You will join a team of highly talented, motivated and collaborative professionals located in Sant Quirze del Vallès (Barcelona) and Zurich, Switzerland. As part of this team, you will play a key role in building the foundations of a robust, industrial-grade test automation system for autonomous mobile robots. Testing is a critical part of delivering robust and dependable robotic systems and achieving reliability at scale makes it both technically challenging and highly impactful.

Your work will directly reduce repetitive manual efforts across the team and strengthen the overall reliability of our products.

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