Senior Software Quality Engineer – Robotics & Kitchen Ops

LAB37; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k)

Equity

On-site in LA

Paid time off

Job summary

Lab37 Robotics in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to own test strategy, release validation, automation, and triage across complex software and operational workflows spanning frontend, backend, cloud, integrations, and robot‑adjacent interfaces.

You will partner with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware, and mechanical teams to translate requirements into practical test plans, implement automated tests, and guide production readiness while improving

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software quality, test engineering, or related experience across multiple components.
• Deep experience creating and executing test plans for production software.
• Strong experience with test automation using one or more programming languages.
• Experience testing APIs, backend services, web applications, databases, integrations, and asynchronous or event‑driven workflows.
• Experience owning or coordinating release validation, release checkout, or production‑readiness activities.
• Strong debugging and investigation skills across multiple systems.
• Experience working with CI/CD systems and integrating automated tests into build and deployment pipelines.
• Strong judgment about automation leverage and when manual testing is more effective.
• Deep experience improving software quality, reliability, and testability.
• Strong product judgment translating real workflows into validation strategies.
• Clear written and verbal communication for test plans and quality reports.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test strategies for complex product capabilities across UI, backend, cloud, integrations, and robot‑adjacent systems.
• Develop detailed test plans based on requirements, designs, workflows, and failure modes.
• Own and coordinate release checkout, defining readiness criteria and go/no-go decisions.
• Build and maintain automated tests for APIs, backend services, web applications, and end‑to‑end workflows.
• Collaborate with product, culinary, and operations to understand real‑world workflows and risks.
• Test software for configuring, observing, and managing kitchen operations and menus.
• Validate integrations with delivery and commerce platforms including retries and partial failures.
• Test operator‑facing interfaces used in production environments.
• Work with firmware and robotics engineers to validate cross‑boundary system behavior.
• Contribute to simulation environments, mocked services, and test data to improve testability.
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, and system testing.
• Own quality activities through rollout, observability, and on‑call rotation.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD

Debugging

Release validation

Test strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

Docker

Selenium

REST APIs

Job description

Lab37 Robotics in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to own test strategy, release validation, automation, and triage across complex software and operational workflows spanning frontend, backend, cloud, integrations, and robot‑adjacent interfaces.

You will partner with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware, and mechanical teams to translate requirements into practical test plans, implement automated tests, and guide production readiness while improving