---
title: 'Lead System Testing Engineer at Noble Machines, Inc'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-system-testing-engineer-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-g7405gg8kjn1'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-12'
---

# Lead System Testing Engineer at Noble Machines, Inc

- **Company:** Noble Machines, Inc
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-02-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/undercontrolroboticsinc/jobs/4158373009

## Job description

## About Noble Machines

Noble Machines (formerly Under Control Robotics, UCR) builds general-purpose robots that take on hazardous and physically demanding industrial tasks, enabling a safer, more efficient, and more productive world. Our work demands reliability, robustness, and readiness for the unexpected—on time, every time. We're assembling a mission-driven team focused on delivering real impact in heavy industry, from construction and mining to manufacturing and energy. If you're driven to build rugged, reliable products that solve real-world problems, we'd love to talk.

Position Overview

At Noble Machines, building robots is a team sport. As a Lead Test Engineer, you will own the validation of our multipurpose humanoid robots across hardware, software, and AI systems. You will operate the robot directly to stress test real-world performance, design and execute test plans, analyze logs and data, and produce clear reports that enable engineers to improve reliability and capability.

This is a hands-on role focused on ensuring our robots are ready for deployment in demanding, production environments.

## Responsibilities

- Operate humanoid robots to execute functional, stress, and edge-case tests
- Design and run tests covering mechanical, electrical, software, and AI behavior
- Validate robot performance, safety, and reliability in lab and field environments
- Document test procedures, results, failures, and observed behavior
- Collect and analyze logs, telemetry, video, and AI outputs
- Report clear, actionable findings to hardware, software, and AI engineers
- Verify fixes and improvements through repeatable regression testing

## Requirements

- 3+ years of experience in robotics testing, systems testing, or hands-on technical roles
- Experience operating complex hardware or robotic systems
- Ability to design structured tests and clearly document results
- Familiarity with testing or debugging hardware, software, and AI-driven systems
- Comfortable working with logs, data, and basic analysis tools
- Strong attention to detail and clear written communication
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, real-world environments

## Nice to Have

- Experience with humanoid, legged, or autonomous robots
- Exposure to AI or autonomy testing (perception, planning, control, or decision-making)
- Background in mechanical, electrical, or software engineering
- Field testing or deployment experience in industrial environments
- To apply, submit your resume here or email people@noblemachines.ai. We encourage candidates to include examples of hands-on testing, system validation, or field work demonstrating experience with complex robotic systems.

## About Noble Machines, Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Noble Machines builds general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform hazardous and physically demanding industrial tasks, enabling safer and more efficient operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-backed; Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Wei Ding (CEO), Wen-Loong Ma (CTO), and a team of engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid Robotics, Hardware
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise – manufacturing, construction, logistics, mining, energy, and semiconductor companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “General purpose robots that take on hazardous and physically-demanding industrial tasks — enabling a safer, more efficient, and more productive world.”

## Products & Services
- **Noble Machines General-Purpose Humanoid Robot**: A full-stack hardware-AI system featuring:
  - AI-driven whole-body control and end-to-end autonomy
  - 50 lb (23 kg) payload capacity
  - 5-hour battery life
  - Walking speed 0.8 m/s
  - Modular end-effectors for diverse tasks (material handling, inspection, sorting)
  - Tele-operable and autonomous modes
  - Learns new skills through language, demonstration, and feedback in hours, not months
  - Designed to navigate stairs, scaffolding, unstable terrain, and cluttered spaces

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – Seed round (6 investors, details undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 6 investors (names not publicly available); first deployment to a Fortune Global 500 customer
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Emerged from stealth and deployed first robot to a Fortune Global 500 customer in March 2026, within 18 months of company launch
  - 32 employees as of 2026
  - Rapid iteration across three generations of robots (first gen demo September 2024, shipping in 18 months)
  - Career page lists multiple engineering roles (Robotics Learning Engineer, Autonomy Software Engineer, Mechatronics Engineer, ML Ops, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-AI co-design** that enables fast skill acquisition (hours vs. months)
- **Heavy payload** (50 lb) combined with agile mobility for real industrial environments
- **Mixed autonomy**: operates autonomously but allows teleoperation for expert intervention
- **Proven real-world deployment** with a Fortune Global 500 customer, not just pilot demonstrations
- **Cost-effective hardware** designed for mass manufacturing

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding deployments across manufacturing, construction, logistics, energy, and mining; scaling the platform after successful pilot; deepening AI learning capabilities; growing the engineering and field operations team.
- **Direction**: “AI must prove itself in real industrial operations before it scales” – the company validates performance in operational environments before expanding.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven engineering culture focused on solving dangerous, real-world problems. Team composed of engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Not specified explicitly; likely on-site in Sunnyvale given hardware work.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Early-stage company building America’s first industrial humanoid robot; opportunity to work on full-stack robotics (hardware, autonomy, AI) with rapid iteration cycles; multiple roles currently open on Greenhouse (robotics learning, autonomy, mechatronics). Emphasis on hands-on field testing and customer collaboration.

## Sources
1. [noblemachines.ai - Company Page](https://www.noblemachines.ai/company)
2. [noblemachines.ai - Home Page](https://www.noblemachines.ai/)
3. [noblemachines.ai - Press Release](https://www.noblemachines.ai/blog/noble-machines-emerges-from-stealth-ships-and-deploys-general-purpose-robots-for-industry)
4. [PitchBook - Noble Machines Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/664287-58)
5. [LinkedIn - Noble Machines](https://www.linkedin.com/company/noble-machines)

## Other roles at Noble Machines, Inc

- [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-kgsb54knbt64) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Robotics Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/robotics-software-engineer-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-7eh1n4xmqjxf) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Product Manager, Simulation & Digital Twin](https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-simulation-digital-twin-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-apsvzaw3bg4t) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Director of Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-finance-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-04zscvnczwdd) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Electrical Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/electrical-engineer-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-dfjn28b0x9tb) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Teleoperator](https://feeny.ai/job/teleoperator-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-zjj07r2vn4pe) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Mechanical Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/mechanical-engineer-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-vhw9ty8z3gfs) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Autonomy Software Engineer - Mapping and Localization](https://feeny.ai/job/autonomy-software-engineer-mapping-and-localization-noble-machines-inc-sunnyvale-taw9eeznd53y) — Sunnyvale, CA