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Test & Reliability Engineering Intern
Gecko Robotics · Hardware Engineering
- Where
- Pittsburgh
- Posted
- Sep 15
What We Do
Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.
Role at a Glance
Gecko Robotics is seeking a Test & Reliability Engineer Intern to join Field Infra’s Test & Reliability (T&R) team in Pittsburgh for Summer 2027.
What you'd do
- Own a scoped engineering project that improves a test, regression, reliability-analysis, or test-data workflow.
- Help plan, execute, and document software and integrated robotic-system tests under the guidance of experienced engineers.
- Analyze test results, clearly document findings and open questions, and recommend improvements to test coverage and repeatability.
- Develop or improve tooling, automation, scripts, or documentation that makes testing more efficient and reliable.
- Collaborate with Test & Reliability engineers and partner teams to understand how field observations and engineering requirements inform validation.
- Present your project, results, and recommended next steps at the end of the internship.
What they want
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related technical discipline, with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May 2028.
- Ability to work onsite in Pittsburgh, Monday through Friday, for the full Summer 2027 internship.
- Foundational programming experience in Python or another general-purpose programming language.
- Experience writing, testing, or debugging software through coursework, projects, research, competition teams, or a prior internship.
- Interest in software testing, reliability, robotics, embedded systems, or complex physical systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to structure technical problems, document work clearly, communicate findings, and learn from feedback.
About Gecko Robotics · Hardware Engineering
You are a curious, hands-on engineering student who enjoys understanding how complex systems behave in the real world. You are comfortable learning across software and hardware boundaries, approaching problems methodically, and communicating what you observed and what you do not yet know. At Gecko, our people are our greatest investment.