NVIDIA · 4 months ago
Senior Manager, Robotics Quality Assurance
US, CA, Santa Clara
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expNVIDIA is seeking a Senior Manager for Robotics Quality Assurance to join their SW QA team. This role involves defining test engineering strategies, leading product testing efforts, and ensuring high industry standards for robotics products.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive the overall test engineering strategy for our robotics products, establishing an engineering-focused approach to quality encompassing design for scalable test frameworks, tools, and methodologies and lead product testing and engineering efforts across a full-stack robotics solution
Deliver test automation development for 'On-Robot Hardware & Software' and embedded software running on our NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor platform encompassing sensor integration validation, real-time performance, and low-level control systems
Architect and implement rigorous test plans to validate 'AI Foundation models', like Isaac GR00T, focused on performance, safety, and reliability in real-world scenarios. This involves testing model outputs, identifying edge cases, and ensuring robustness
Build and maintain the test infrastructure within our 'Simulation & Digital Twins' environments, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, developing automated tests verifying physics engine accuracy and the transferability of learned policies from simulation to the real robot
Oversee test automation development for the full 'Robotics Software Stack', including Isaac ROS, and its integration with other robotic components
Architect, build, and maintain the test infrastructure for a humanoid reference platform showcasing the power of NVIDIA's technology and develop testing methodologies bridging the 'sim-to-real' gap, creating a continuous feedback loop between virtual and physical testing
You'll lead the design of complex test scenarios in Isaac Sim/Lab that use generative AI to stress-test robot policies, ensuring that models trained in simulation (using Isaac GR00T) perform reliably on real physical hardware
Lead design of complex test scenarios in Isaac Sim/Lab that use generative AI to stress-test robot policies, ensuring that models trained in simulation (using Isaac GR00T) perform reliably on real physical hardware
Qualification
Required
B.S. or equivalent experience in Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
12+ overall years aligned Hardware Engineering experience w 3+ years of demonstrable experience in QA involving Robotics or Hardware Engineering
5+ years of leading a team
Proficiency with AI Tools such as Cursor, Github Copilot, Perplexity, and ChatGPT
Experience in with ML and training /testing Robotics Models
Fleet management, telemetry and debug, along with managing demo's
Engage closely with a range of cross functional teams including project management, hardware and software developers, and routinely share statistical data reports with all customers, including Top-5
Ability to translate organizational goals to QA deliverables
Strong problem solving and analytical skills with excellent communication skills
Preferred
Incorporating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - Designing, developing, and deploying robots that can understand and respond to both visual and linguistic inputs, enabling them to perform complex tasks through natural language commands and visual scene interpretation
Teleoperation – Manipulation and setting up data collection labs
Fluent in scripting in Python
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