Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
Agility Robotics is at the forefront of humanoid robotics, developing advanced robots designed to function seamlessly in human environments. Our mission is to build robots that enhance productivity and support industries through safe and effective automation. We are seeking an Engineering Manager of Software QA to lead a team ensuring the reliability, functionality, and robustness of our software releases through structured testing, debugging, and validation processes.
Location:
This position can be based either within commuting distance of our Salem, OR headquarters or remotely in the San Francisco Bay Area. For remote candidates, regular travel to Salem, typically 2 weeks per month will be required.
About the Role
As the Engineering Manager of Software QA, you will lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of quality assurance for Agility’s robotics software. You’ll manage and grow a team responsible for validating our humanoid robot platform, ensuring software releases are reliable, performant, and ready for real-world deployment.
This role goes beyond day-to-day testing—you’ll be responsible for building out scalable test methodologies, refining CI/CD pipelines, and embedding a culture of quality 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 place.
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.
About the Work
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of SW QA engineers focused on end-to-end testing across the full robotics software stack—including perception, locomotion, behavior, and autonomy—as well as the ARC cloud platform that supports robot management and fleet operations.
- Define and execute the QA roadmap for software quality, test infrastructure, and CI/CD strategy as Agility’s robot fleet and software complexity scale.
- Champion a “quality-first” mindset across the engineering organization by setting expectations, driving accountability, and advocating for robust testing at every stage.
CI/CD & Test Infrastructure
- Refine and evolve Agility’s CI/CD processes, ensuring fast, reliable, and scalable software validation from code commit to release.
- Own the architecture and tooling for test execution, artifact management, regression tracking, and reporting.
- Identify gaps in current test coverage and infrastructure, and lead efforts to develop simulation- and hardware-in-the-loop testing solutions.
Test Methodology & Automation
- Establish and scale structured test development practices to validate the full robotics software stack, including controls, state estimation, planning, and perception.
- Oversee development of automated test frameworks for both simulation and physical robots, ensuring test cases are meaningful, maintainable, and well-aligned with product goals.
- Ensure repeatability, reliability, and traceability across all validation workflows—manual and automated.
Execution & Collaboration
- Oversee testing of software releases on both development and production robot platforms, ensuring regressions are caught early and addressed swiftly.
- Partner with Software, Controls, and Systems Engineering teams to triage, reproduce, and resolve high-priority bugs.
- Drive and participate in root cause analysis efforts by guiding deep-dive investigations using logs, telemetry, and test artifacts, partnering closely with integration engineers.
Process Ownership & Quality Gates
- Define quality gates for software releases, balancing speed with rigor to maintain stability without slowing innovation.
- Develop and enforce processes for bug tracking, prioritization, and resolution, ensuring efficient communication between QA and development.
- Create metrics to track software quality, test coverage, and release readiness—and use them to drive continuous improvement.
Reporting & Documentation
- Deliver clear and actionable QA reports summarizing test outcomes, trends, and risks.
- Ensure robust documentation of QA processes, test plans, and tooling to support internal alignment and team scaling.
- Provide regular updates to leadership on software health, risk areas, and resource needs.
About You
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 complex, multidisciplinary systems—robotics, autonomous vehicles, or embedded systems preferred.
- Track record of building, scaling, and managing QA teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
Technical Expertise
- Apply hardware intuition to design optimal testing and interpret results, data, and robot behavior to map observations back to likely root causes in hardware, firmware, or software.
- Strong understanding of robotics hardware—actuators, sensors, embedded systems, and mechanics—and how it affects real-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 real-time validation.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python) and working knowledge of software development workflows (Git, Jenkins, Docker, etc.).
- Familiarity with robotics software architecture, embedded systems, control loops, and perception pipelines.
Mindset & Skills
- Ownership mindset—takes initiative and drives projects forward without waiting for permission.
- Pragmatic and scrappy—builds processes and tools that solve real problems without unnecessary overhead.
- Excellent communicator—able to translate test results into actionable feedback and influence across disciplines.
- Passion for quality, curiosity for how things work, and resilience in the face of complexity.
Why Agility Robotics?
At Agility, we’re not just building robots—we’re creating a new class of machines that will transform the way the world works. You’ll be part of a passionate, multidisciplinary team pushing the limits of hardware and software integration. If you’re driven to make real robots work in the real world, we’d love to talk.
Benefits
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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