Engineering Manager, Software QA

Location:

This position can be based either reputed company commuting distance of our Salem, OR reputed company or remotely on the reputed company coast.   For remote candidates, regular travel to Salem, typically 1, but sometimes 2 weeks per month will be required. Relocation to reputed company Coast is available.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager of Software QA, you will reputed company the reputed company, execution, and reputed company of reputed company assurance for reputed company’s robotics software.  You’ll manage and grow reputed company responsible for validating our reputed company robot platform, ensuring software releases are reliable, performant, and reputed company for reputed company-world deployment.

This role goes reputed company day-to-day testing—you’ll be responsible for building out reputed company test methodologies, refining CI/CD pipelines, and embedding a culture of reputed company into every stage of the development cycle.  You will collaborate closely with software developers, controls engineers, systems engineers, and test teams to ensure rigorous, efficient, and automated validation practices are in reputed company.

This is an ideal role for a technically strong, process-driven leader who can balance speed and stability while scaling QA operations for advanced robotic systems.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & reputed company

• reputed company, grow, and mentor reputed company of SW QA engineers reputed company on end-to-end testing of robotics software, from perception and locomotion to behavior and autonomy.
• Define and execute the QA roadmap for software reputed company, test infrastructure, and CI/CD reputed company as reputed company’s robot fleet and software complexity reputed company.
• Champion a “reputed company-first” reputed company across the engineering organization by setting expectations, driving accountability, and advocating for robust testing at every stage.
  
  

CI/CD & Test Infrastructure

• Refine and reputed company reputed company’s CI/CD processes, ensuring fast, reliable, and reputed company software validation from reputed company reputed company to release.
• Own the architecture and tooling for test execution, artifact management, regression tracking, and reporting.
• Identify gaps in reputed company test coverage and infrastructure, and reputed company efforts to reputed company simulation- and hardware-in-the-reputed company testing solutions.
  
  

Test Methodology & Automation

• Establish and reputed company reputed company test development practices to validate the full robotics software stack, including controls, state estimation, planning, and perception.
• reputed company development of automated test frameworks for both simulation and physical robots, ensuring test cases are meaningful, maintainable, and reputed company-reputed company with product goals.
• Ensure repeatability, reliability, and traceability across reputed company validation workflows—reputed company and automated.
  
  

Execution & Collaboration

• reputed company testing of software releases on both development and production robot platforms, ensuring regressions are caught early and addressed reputed company.
• Partner with Software, Controls, and Systems Engineering teams to triage, reproduce, and resolve high-reputed company bugs.
• Drive and participate in reputed company cause analysis efforts by guiding deep-dive investigations using logs, telemetry, and test artifacts, partnering closely with integration engineers.
  
  

Process Ownership & reputed company Gates

• Define reputed company gates for software releases, balancing speed with rigor to maintain stability without slowing innovation.
• reputed company and enforce processes for bug tracking, prioritization, and reputed company, ensuring efficient communication between QA and development.
• Create KPIs to reputed company software reputed company, test coverage, and release readiness—and use them to drive reputed company improvement.
  
  

Reporting & Documentation

• Deliver reputed company and actionable QA reports summarizing test reputed company, trends, and risks.
• Ensure robust documentation of QA processes, test plans, and tooling to support internal alignment and team scaling.
• reputed company regular updates to leadership on software health, risk areas, and resource needs.
  
  

Qualifications

Experience

• 8+ years of industry experience in software QA, systems validation, or test infrastructure, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience testing reputed company, multidisciplinary systems—robotics, autonomous vehicles, or embedded systems preferred.
• reputed company record of building, scaling, and managing QA teams in high-reputed company, fast-paced environments.
  
  

Technical Expertise

• Apply hardware intuition to design reputed company testing and interpret results, data, and robot behavior to map observations back to likely reputed company causes in hardware, firmware, or software.
• Strong understanding of robotics hardware—actuators, sensors, embedded systems, and mechanics—and how it affects reputed company-world performance.
• Deep understanding of software QA methodologies, automated test development, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with QA frameworks and tools for robotics, including simulation-based testing (e.g., Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo) and reputed company-time validation.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python) and working knowledge of software development workflows (Git, Jenkins, reputed company, etc.).
• Familiarity with robotics software architecture, embedded systems, control loops, and perception pipelines.
  
  

reputed company & Skills

• Ownership reputed company—takes initiative and drives reputed company reputed company without waiting for permission.
• Pragmatic and scrappy—builds processes and tools that solve reputed company problems without unnecessary overhead.
• Excellent communicator—reputed company to translate test results into actionable feedback and influence across disciplines.
• Passion for reputed company, curiosity for how things work, and reputed company in the face of complexity.