2027 Internship Test Operations Engineer

The role

You will help run daily testing at the Proto-Town test site in Central Texas. You will work with operators and engineers to measure autonomy performance and find failures on autonomous excavators.

What you will do

• Help write Gen 3 test plans with hardware, controls, and autonomy engineers
• Run structured field tests on autonomous and manually operated excavators
• Own data quality for campaigns through instrumentation and logging checks
• Triage issues in the field by reproducing them and writing tickets
• Build Python tooling for test setup, data processing, and daily reporting
• Turn learnings into better test procedures
• Present campaign results and recommendations to engineering teams

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a BS or MS in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, robotics, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Hands-on experience with test hardware, instrumentation, or data acquisition through coursework, projects, competition teams, or a prior internship
• Working proficiency in Python for data processing, scripting, and automation
• Basic electrical competence: multimeters, connectors, harnessing, reading a schematic
• Willingness to work outdoors full-time at our field site, in PPE, on and around heavy equipment
• Strong documentation habits and clear communication

Nice to have

• Exposure to heavy equipment, off-highway machinery, hydraulics, or automotive and vehicle test
• Experience with structured test planning or verification and validation (V&V) methods
• Familiarity with Git, Linux command line, or ROS-style robotics tooling
• Experience analyzing and visualizing large time-series datasets
• Shop or field experience where you were responsible for safety and process (Formula SAE, Baja, robotics teams, etc.)

About the company

Bedrock retrofits heavy equipment like excavators to perform autonomous work. The team includes veterans from Waymo, Segment, and Uber Freight.