Nvidia

Robotics

SeniorManager,RoboticsQualityAssurance

$216–345k Santa Clara, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Senior Manager, Robotics Quality Assurance at Nvidia. Skills: Robotics Quality Assurance, Test engineering strategy, AI model validation, Simulation and Digital Twins environments, Robotics Software Stack, Sim-to-real gap bridging, Generative AI for stress-testing robot policies. Define and drive the overall test engineering strategy for our robotics products. Establish an engineering-focused approach to quality encompassing design for scalable test frameworks, tools, and methodologies”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure that the highest industry standards are met; Validate AI Foundation models, like Isaac GR00T, focused on performance, safety, and reliability in real-world scenarios; Verify physics engine accuracy and the transferability of learned policies from simulation to the real robot; Showcasing the power of NVIDIA's technology; Ensuring that models trained in simulation (using Isaac GR00T) perform reliably on real physical hardware

Industry & Context.

Robotics
Problems you'll solve

Problem solving and analytical skills

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12+ overall years aligned Hardware Engineering experience, 3+ years of demonstrable experience in 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 in with ML and training /testing Robotics Models, Fleet management, telemetry and debug, along with managing demo’s, Ability to translate organizational goals to QA deliverables, problem solving and analytical skills

Nice to Have

Incorporating Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Teleoperation – Manipulation and setting up data collection labs, Fluent in scripting in Python

What You'll Do.

Define and drive the overall test engineering strategy for our robotics products

Establish an engineering-focused approach to quality encompassing design for scalable test frameworks

Lead product testing and engineering efforts across a full-stack robotics solution

Deliver test automation development for “On-Robot Hardware & Software” and embedded software running on our NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor platform

Architect and implement rigorous test plans to validate “AI Foundation models”

Build and maintain the test infrastructure within our “Simulation & Digital Twins” environments

Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab

Oversee test automation development for the full “Robotics Software Stack”

and its integration with other robotic components

and maintain the test infrastructure for a humanoid reference platform

Develop testing methodologies bridging the 'sim-to-real' gap

Lead the design of complex test scenarios in Isaac Sim/Lab that use generative AI to stress-test robot policies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Engage closely with a range of cross functional teams including project management, hardware and software developers; Routinely share statistical data reports with all customers, including Top-5

Communication Scope

Excellent communication skills; Share statistical data reports

Process & Methodology

Project management

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