What You'll Get To Do- Plan and execute release validation for each release: new-feature validation, end-to-end operational scenarios, and regression across robot platforms, compute, firmware and configurations.
- Run end-to-end autonomous missions on real mobile robots in our test facility, the way a customer runs them: setup, navigation, data capture and recovery.
- Verify each release candidate: install the build, run the regression set, confirm hotfixes, and report status to the release team.
- Write clear, reproducible bug reports in Jira with datasets, logs, robot, build and steps attached.
- Own the pass/fail evidence that feeds the go/no-go decision: pass and fail counts, deferred bugs and known-issue lists.
- Prepare the release handover for the engineers who deploy at customer sites: what was validated, what was not, and what to watch.
- Confirm late fixes on the next release candidate before they ship.
- Build and maintain the release test-case library so each release plan starts from a curated, versioned set.
- Partner with our test automation and infrastructure engineers so the scenarios you run by hand become automated simulation and robot tests.
- Improve the release process itself: checklists, templates and retrospectives.
What You Have- 3+ years in QA, system test, integration test or release validation for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation or another hardware-software product.
- Experience planning and running structured test campaigns: writing test plans, executing against acceptance criteria, tracking coverage and reporting status to stakeholders.
- Hands-on comfort with physical systems. You are willing to walk a robot through a building for hours, work on your feet, and be safety-conscious around moving machinery.
- Strong written communication. You write bug reports and status updates that others can act on without a follow-up conversation.
- Fluency with Jira or a similar tracker, and with a disciplined bug lifecycle: triage, severity, reproduction, verification, closure.
- Comfort on Linux, in a terminal and over SSH: installing builds, pulling logs, checking a process, running a command-line tool.
- Working familiarity with git: checking out a branch or tag, reading a pull request, finding what changed between two builds.
- Judgement to separate a blocker from a nuisance, and the confidence to say a build is not ready.
- Reliability and ownership. Releases run on a fixed calendar and you will be the person others depend on.
The Extras That Set You Apart- Experience as a release manager, release coordinator or QA lead responsible for a go/no-go call.
- Robotics or autonomy domain knowledge: ROS, SLAM and localization, navigation, mission planning, LiDAR, cameras.
- Experience validating software on a fleet: multiple robot platforms, firmware versions, configurations or deployment paths.
- Scripting or test-automation experience, for example Python or Bash to automate a test step, parse logs or collect data.
- Experience with simulation-based testing or with hardware-in-the-loop setups.
- Experience with test management tools such as Xray, TestRail or Zephyr.
- Experience working alongside field or deployment engineers and customers.
- Background in a safety-critical or regulated domain.
$135,000 - $170,000 a year
Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual's background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.
