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QA Lead, Robotics
Dyna RoboticsRobotics company
Redwood City, United StatesLead
First Round Capital
CRV
Salesforce Ventures
NVentures
Robostrategy
Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the QA function for robotics hardware and software at Dyna Robotics.
- •Build and lead the QA function at Dyna across our full stack
- •cloud inference servers to Linux-based IoT devices on the factory floor.
- •Real-world robotics cannot be fully validated in simulation; physical hardware behavior and real-environment variability require hands-on QA judgment.
- •Key Responsibilities Hire, develop, and retain a QA team.
- •Provide career development and feedback, delegate ownership to grow engineers, and monitor team energy to prevent burnout.
- •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 teams.
- •Build and maintain scalable automated test frameworks across robot software, cloud, and edge devices.
- •Partner with developers to continuously expand CI coverage and shift testing left, minimizing manual testing over time.
- •Requirements Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field. 7+ years in QA, SRE, or Robotics Engineering with hands-on experience testing real hardware systems (not purely software/simulation), including 2+ years in a team lead or management role.
- •Proficiency in Python.
- •Comfortable navigating build systems, running test pipelines, and debugging failures across the stack
- •not expected to develop features.
Required skills
PythonCI/CDKubernetesTechnical LeadershipEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
Computer VisionNLPLLMsA/B TestingAnthropic APIHugging Face
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonLinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CDDatadogGrafanaAnthropic APIHugging FaceComputer VisionNLPLLMs
