QA Lead, Robotics

Job description

Job responsibilities

• People Management: Hire, develop, and retain a QA team. Provide career development and feedback, delegate ownership to grow engineers, and monitor team energy to prevent burnout.
• QA Strategy & Cross-Functional Alignment: Own the QA strategy and roadmap. Align priorities with company vision, translate quality risks into business impact, and drive alignment across robotics, ML, and infrastructure…
• Test Automation & CI/CD (primary focus): Build and maintain scalable automated test frameworks across robot software, cloud, and edge devices.
• Release Validation & Benchmarking: Own and automate release checklists (inference server, station-side deployment). Run A/B testing for robotic tasks to measure success rates and latency.
• AI Model Evaluation & Regression Testing: Design and execute evaluation pipelines that validate AI model and full-system performance across model, software, and hardware updates.
• System Monitoring & Alerting: Use tools like Datadog and Grafana to track system health, identify performance regressions, and maintain observability across production environments.
• Physical Hardware QA & Integration: Validate real-robot behavior that simulation cannot cover — mechanical repeatability, sensor calibration drift, and edge cases on physical hardware.
• Process & Documentation: Establish and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for hardware and software validation; drive continuous process improvement.