Test Operations Engineer
Posted 5 Oct 2026
Advertised as “2027 Internship Test Operations Engineer”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Internship
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyAerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics (or related)
Study levelBachelor's or higher
Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world
At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.
We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.
This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.
About the Role & Team
Nothing ships at Bedrock until it's been proven on real iron, on a real site, in real dirt. Test Operations runs the field program that turns engineering intent into evidence. We plan the tests, run them safely on autonomous excavators, and bring back data the whole company trusts. Proto-Town is our largest test site: more than 30 acres in Central Texas where several autonomous excavators and haul trucks run real mass-excavation work every day. As our Proto-Town Test Ops intern, you'll help run that daily testing, measure how well our autonomy performs, and find the failures before a customer does. You'll work in the field with our operators and Field Test Specialists, and directly with the autonomy engineers whose software you're testing.
What You'll Do
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Help write Gen 3 test plans with hardware, controls, and autonomy engineers: what we're proving, how we'll measure it, and what pass looks like
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Run structured field tests on autonomous and manually operated excavators, both in-cab and from the field, following our safety procedures
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Own data quality for your campaigns: instrumentation and logging checks, then a review of recorded runs (e.g., in Foxglove) to confirm you captured what you meant to
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Triage issues in the field: reproduce them, narrow down the cause, and write tickets engineering can act on the same day
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Build Python tooling that automates test setup, data processing, and daily reporting
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Turn what you learn into better test procedures, so the next Gen 3 machine goes through validation faster than the last one
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Present your campaign results and recommendations to the engineering teams