Technical Program Manager, Fauna

What you'll do

• Write, maintain, and run regression and adversarial test plans for robot behavior, teleoperation updates, releases, and new policies; report findings and recommend go/no-go decisions.
• Support and validate data collection through hands-on robot testing, benchmark collection, episode review, task pilots, and quality checks.
• Coordinate test activities, track issues to resolution, maintain documentation, and onboard data collectors and QA team members.

What they ask for

• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Experience managing cross-functional programs, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• 3+ years in quality assurance, test, or validation of hardware or hardware-plus-software products, or technical program management for such products.
• Experience writing and running structured test plans and SOPs; hands-on work with experimental hardware; teleoperation or extensive VR/XR headset use; Linux and command-line proficiency; and training, onboarding, or mentoring others.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams; robot teleoperation, robot-learning data collection, or validation of robot control or learned policies on hardware.
• Python scripting for hardware control; experience with LLMs or AI coding tools to build internal QA tools.

Pay

USD 139,900.00 - 189,200.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

Linux, Meta Quest 3, Python, LLMs, AI coding tools

AI focus

Validating new robot policies and supporting robot-learning data collection; using LLMs or AI coding tools to build simple internal QA tools is preferred.