Robotics Technical Program Manager - QA & Teleoperation

Amazon Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own quality for robot behavior and data collection. You will write and maintain the test suite that every release and every new policy goes through, including a core regression suite and adversarial tests to surface subtle failures across operators, teleoperation, and the robot.

You will also help keep data quality high through hands-on, on-site work with robots, supporting benchmark collections, reviewing recordings, and tracing data

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, or in technical program management for such 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.
• Able to lift up to 10 lbs and wear equipment weighing up to 30 lbs; continuous hand/eye coordination, fine manipulation, and kinesthetic awareness.
• Experience training, onboarding, or mentoring others on technical tools or processes.
• Ability to write technical documentation precise enough for an operator or support agent to follow without the author present.

Responsibilities

• Own the release test suite for robot behavior and teleoperation. Write, maintain, and run test plans for updates to the teleoperation stack, internal and external software releases, and new robot policies.
• Maintain a repeatable core regression suite that every change must pass, and extend it with deeper, adversarial test cases designed to surface subtle, intermittent, or interaction-dependent failures across the operator, the teleoperation stack, and the robot.
• Run tests hands-on with experimental robots and in simulation. Write detailed, reproducible test reports and bug reports, and give clear go/no-go recommendations for each release and each new policy.
• Track issues through to resolution with software, controls, hardware, and ML teams. Keep a record of known issues, how to reproduce them, and workarounds.
• Support data quality through hands-on, on-robot testing: help run benchmark collections, review recordings against task requirements, flag problem episodes, and feed the failure patterns you find back to the teams that own the process and tooling.
• Pilot new data collection tasks alongside data scientists and research engineers: translate research intent into an executable protocol, run the first sessions yourself, and report back on feasibility, throughput, and data quality.
• Validate the data collection tools and methods behind each task before they're relied on at scale — define acceptance criteria, quantify failure modes, and make the go/no-go call.
• Onboard and mentor new data collectors and QA team members on our teleoperation stack, the data collection management system, the ingestion and annotation tools, and how to report bugs well.
• Coordinate the day-to-day test and benchmark activities that data collectors take part in. Work with the data collection program manager, who owns the data collectors' work and priorities, to schedule robot time, sessions, and test coverage.
• Assess the spaces and resources that testing and collection depend on — lab and home-like environments, robot availability, headsets and peripherals, fixtures and props — and flag what's missing before it becomes a bottleneck.
• Keep test documentation, checklists, SOPs, and run books up to date as the robot, the app, and our policies change.
• Work safely around experimental hardware, and hold the people you train to the same standard.

Skills

Technical product management

Cross-functional coordination

Quality assurance experience

Test planning & SOPs

Hands-on hardware testing

VR/XR teleoperation experience

Linux CLI proficiency

Physical robot handling

Documentation writing

Mentoring others

Tools

Python scripting

Test management tools

Issue trackers & logs

Job description

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own quality for robot behavior and data collection. You will write and maintain the test suite that every release and every new policy goes through, including a core regression suite and adversarial tests to surface subtle failures across operators, teleoperation, and the robot.

You will also help keep data quality high through hands-on, on-site work with robots, supporting benchmark collections, reviewing recordings, and tracing data