Technical Program Manager, Fauna

Fauna Robotics is looking for a Technical Program Manager to own quality for robot behavior and data collection. You will write and maintain the test suite that every release and every new policy goes through. That suite has two layers. The first is a core set of regression tests that confirms, every time, that the robot's locomotion, manipulation, mode transitions, and autonomy hand-offs still behave as expected. The second, and harder, layer goes looking for the subtle problems a routine pass will miss: failures that appear only in particular sequences of events, under particular loads, or in the interaction between the operator, the teleoperation stack, and the robot. You will run these tests yourself on experimental hardware, write clear and reproducible reports, and work with the engineering teams until each issue is understood and resolved.

You will also help keep the data we collect at a high quality through hands-on, on-site work with the robots: supporting benchmark collections, reviewing recorded episodes, and tracking data problems back to their root cause, whether that's the operator, the teleoperation stack, the robot, or the pipeline. As new collection tasks come out of research, you'll pilot them on hardware with the data scientists who designed them, validate the tools and methods they depend on, and say whether they're ready to run at scale. You'll be the go-to person for bringing new data collectors and QA team members up to speed on our teleoperation stack, our data collection management and ingestion tools, and the basics of finding, triaging, and reporting bugs.

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