Robotics QA & Data Programs Manager

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 189,000; Full time

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Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Technical Program Manager to own the quality for robot behavior and data collection. You will write and maintain a two-layer test suite, run tests on experimental hardware and simulations, and produce clear, reproducible reports for the engineering teams.

You will also help maintain data quality, review recordings, and pilot new data collection tasks with data scientists, ensuring tools and methods meet acceptance criteria before scaled use.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance, test, or validation of hardware or hardware-plus-software products.
• Experience writing and running structured test plans and SOPs, and producing detailed, reproducible test and bug reports with logs, timestamps, media, and system context.
• Experience working hands-on with physical robots or other experimental hardware in a lab or test environment, including diagnosing failures that span hardware, firmware, and software.
• Experience teleoperating robots, or extensive hands-on use of VR/XR headsets.
• Linux and command-line proficiency — able to run scripts and terminal tooling to drive, inspect, and debug hardware directly.
• Able to work in a VR headset for extended sessions and to work safely around experimental robots.

Responsibilities

• Own the release test suite for robot behavior and teleoperation.
• Maintain a repeatable core regression suite that every change must pass, and extend it with deeper, adversarial test cases.
• Run tests hands-on with experimental robots and in simulation, write reproducible reports and bug reports.
• Track issues through to resolution with software, controls, hardware, and ML teams; keep a record of known issues.
• Support data quality through hands-on, on-robot testing: help run benchmark collections, review recordings, flag problems.
• Pilot new data collection tasks with data scientists, translate research intent into executable protocol, report on feasibility and throughput.
• Validate data collection tools and methods: define acceptance criteria, quantify failure modes, iterate on setups and schemas.
• Onboard and mentor new data collectors and QA team members on teleoperation stack and data tools.

Skills

Technical program management

Quality assurance

Robotics hardware testing

Test planning and reporting

On-site testing with experimental hw

Mentoring and onboarding

Documentation writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Linux

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Technical Program Manager to own the quality for robot behavior and data collection. You will write and maintain a two-layer test suite, run tests on experimental hardware and simulations, and produce clear, reproducible reports for the engineering teams.

You will also help maintain data quality, review recordings, and pilot new data collection tasks with data scientists, ensuring tools and methods meet acceptance criteria before scaled use.