NVIDIA
Senior Manager, Robotics Quality Assurance
$216K–$345K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ overall years of aligned Hardware Engineering experience, including 3+ years of QA involving Robotics or Hardware Engineering; 5+ years of leading a team.
- Education
- B.S. or equivalent experience in Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Leads robotics quality assurance strategy, teams, test automation, and infrastructure across hardware, software, AI models, and simulation-to-real validation.
What you'll do
- Define test engineering strategy and lead testing across the full-stack robotics solution.
- Develop test automation for robotics hardware, embedded software, AI models, simulation environments, and the robotics software stack.
- Lead test infrastructure and scenarios that validate safety, reliability, and transfer from simulation to physical robots.
What they ask for
- B.S. or equivalent experience in Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ overall years of aligned Hardware Engineering experience, including 3+ years of QA involving Robotics or Hardware Engineering.
- 5+ years of leading a team.
- Proficiency with AI Tools such as Cursor, Github Copilot, Perplexity, and ChatGPT; experience with ML and training/testing Robotics Models.
Nice to have
- Experience incorporating Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
- Teleoperation, manipulation, setting up data collection labs, or fluent scripting in Python.
Pay
216,000 USD - 345,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor, Isaac GR00T, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Isaac ROS, Cursor, Github Copilot, Python
AI focus
Validates AI foundation models for performance, safety, and reliability; uses generative AI to create simulation scenarios that stress-test robot policies; requires experience with ML and training/testing Robotics Models.
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